Hospital restructuring in North America and Europe
Subtitle: patient outcomes and workforce implications
By: guest editors, Linda H. Aiken and Julie Sochalski.
Contributors: Aiken, Linda H.; Sochalski, Julie.; International Conference on Hospital Reform and Outcomes Research (1996 : Bellagio, Italy)
Series: Medical care -- v. 35, no. 10
Publisher: Lippincott-Raven
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Hagerstown, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Hospital Restructuring -- Congresses.; Downsizing of organizations -- Congresses.; Hospitals -- Cost control -- Congresses.; Hospitals -- Management -- Congresses.
Notes: "The enclosed papers were commissioned for the International Conference on Hospital Reform and Outcomes Research held at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, November 18-22, 1996."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Hospital restructuring in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe : an outcomes research agenda /  Julie Sochalski, Linda H. Aiken, and Claire M. Fagin; value: Reform of hospital care in the Netherlands /  Hans Maarse, Ingrid Mur-Veeman, and Cor Spreeuwenberg; value: Financing reforms in the German hospital sector : from full cost cover principle to prospective case fees /  Reinhard Busse and Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz; value: Hospitals in England : impact of the 1990 national health service reforms /  Anthony J. Harrison; value: Hospital restructuring initiatives in Canada / Judith Shamian and Elisheva Y. Lightstone; value: Canadian hospitals in transformation /  Michael B. Decter; value: Spurious correlation between hospital mortality and complication rates : the importance of severity adjustment /  Jeffrey H. Silber and Paul R. Rosembaum; value: Hospital restructuring and the epidemiology of hospital utilization : recent experience in Ontario /  Geoffrey M. Anderson; value: Using routine data to evaluate quality of care in British hospitals /  Martin McKee and Philip James; value: Hospital outcomes research in Germany : results from a retrospective survey among sickness fund beneficiaries /  Eva Maria Bitzer ... [et al.]; value: Hospital reform and nursing labor market trends in Canada /  Alice J. Baumgart; value: Trends in hospital restructuring and impact on the workforce in Germany /  Gabrielle Müller-Mundt; value: Health sector reform and trends in the United Kingdom hospital workforce /  James Buchan, Christine Hancock, and Anne Marie Rafferty.