Comparison of public, non-profit and private hospitals

A comparison of costs in Australian public teaching, public non-teaching and private hospitals.

This paper compares costs for caring for patients according to common diagnosis groups in Australian public teaching, public non-teaching and private hospitals. Generally, the costs for general surgical procedures are highest in public teaching hospitals, followed by public non-teaching hospitals, and are lowest in private hospitals. However, the private sector is more expensive than the public...

Professional Practices Promoting Health of Healthcare Workers: Comparison of Public and Private Hospitals in Pakistan

Comparison of occupational stress level of nurses in public and private hospitals in Qom, 2016

Background: Occupational stress is highly associated with how organizational management and support work. In our country, organizational management is often private and public and has a different support pattern.The current study was conducted to Comparison of occupational stress level of nurses in public and private hospitals in Qom, 2016. Material & Methods:This descriptive-analytical study w...

Comparison of echocardiography request appropriateness between public and private hospitals.

BACKGROUND Aiming at improving the use of echocardiography tests, the Appropriateness Criteria (AC) were created by the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)/American College of Cardiology (ACC). OBJECTIVE To compare the appropriateness profile of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) requests in accordance with the AC, between a public University Hospital (UH) and a Private Hospital (PH)...

Payments and quality of care in private for-profit and public hospitals in Greece

BACKGROUND Empirical evidence on how ownership type affects the quality and cost of medical care is growing, and debate on these topics is ongoing. Despite the fact that the private sector is a major provider of hospital services in Greece, little comparative information on private versus public sector hospitals is available. The aim of the present study was to describe and compare the operatio...