Efficiency of hospital cases and structural indicators
| Author: | Bc. Adam Poloček |
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| Year: | 2021 - summer |
| Leaders: | PhDr. Lucie Bryndová |
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| Work type: | Bachelors |
| Language: | English |
| Pages: | 87 |
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| Link: | https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/147821 |
| Abstract: | This thesis analyzed influence of hospital structural indicators on cost of hospital care in the Czech Republic. It contributes to the relatively scarce literature on the Czech hospitals efficiency and aims to find out, whether findings of foreign literature are applicable in the Czech Republic. The thesis is unique in the type of data used, it is the first patient-level data analysis on this topic in the Czech Republic. Length of stay was used as a proxy for cost. Two models were used to separate influence of patient characteristics from hospital structural factors influence. Author used negative binomial multilevel model with EDV in the second stage in combination with negative binomial cluster robust regression. Author managed to confirm findings of foreign in the literature on optimal size of hospitals, influence of teaching and research and of CEO education on hospital cost efficiency. Results also confirm current Czech literature findings. |
