OBJECTIVE To systematically review and appraise the quality of economic evaluations assessing centralisation of specialised healthcare services. METHODS A systematic review to identify economic evaluations on centralisation of any specialised healthcare service. Full economic evaluations comparing costs and consequences of centralisation of any specialised healthcare service were eligible for...

In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages. In particular, two dimensions along which centralisation may occur, namely the professional and firm line, are integrated into one modelling framework. It will be shown that, when taking into account different centralisation dimensions, wage outcomes of different bargaining reg...

This study explores important considerations from a patient perspective in decisions regarding centralisation of specialised health care services. The analysis is performed in the framework of the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare's ongoing work to evaluate and, if appropriate, centralise low volume, highly specialised, health services defined as National Specialised Medical Care. In...

Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality compared with the European standard. Nevertheless, the dispersion reduced over the 1980s and the early 1990s along a process of centralisation of the wage sett...

Furthermore, efficient cash management is expected to significantly improve both the profitability and growth of a company. As a result of globalisation and the competitive environment, companies are seeking more sophisticated cash management solutions and focusing on standardised processes and strengthening internal controls, which will lead to a higher degree of centralisation of cash managem...

Background Extrusion of the meniscus has been reported to be correlated with progression of osteoarthritis. In cases with osteochondral lesions after extrusion of the meniscus, meniscal transplantation was the only surgical intervention. Recently, a novel procedure called arthroscopic centralisation has been developed to restore the meniscus function by centralising the midbody of the extruded ...

Although involved in the age of globalisation, 1 China has become more centralised. After decentralisation from 1978 to 1993, trend centralisation 2 been once again strengthened since 1994, which was called re-centralisation by some scholars. Many scholars only focus on period 18th CPC National Congress 2012, but they fail find out root cause for re-centralisation. They ignore fact that 1994 Ta...

BACKGROUND Physician collaboration, which evolves among physicians during the course of providing healthcare services to hospitalised patients, has been seen crucial to effective patient outcomes in healthcare organisations and hospitals. This study aims to explore physician collaborations using measures of social network analysis (SNA) and exponential random graph (ERG) model. METHODS Based ...