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Paying for hospital care: the experience with implementing activity-based funding in five European countries
Health Economics, Policy and Law, 01/13/2012
O'Reilly J et al. – Assessing the impact of activity–based funding is complicated by a shortage of rigorous empirical evaluations. What evidence is currently available, though, suggests that the introduction of activity–based funding has been associated with an increase in activity, a decline in length of stay and/or a reduction in the rate of growth in hospital expenditure in most of the countries under consideration.