What next after the ‘commercialization’ of public hospitals? Searching for effective solutions to achieve financial stability of the hospital sector in Poland

Sowada, Christoph; Kowalska-Bobko, Iwona; Sagan, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.05.024

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“…The following causes of the slow TAVI implementation in Poland could be identified. The Polish health expenditure as a proportion of GDP is 6.7%, one of the lowest in the World Health Organization European region [22]. The annual number of procedures is limited by the National Health Fund contracts per centre.…”

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The Polish Interventional Cardiology TAVI Survey (PICTS): 10 years of transcatheter aortic valve implantation in Poland. The landscape after the first stage of Valve for Life initiative

Dąbrowski

Parma

Huczek

et al. 2021

Polish Archives of Internal Medicine

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited, distributed under the same license, and used for noncommercial purposes only.

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The Polish Interventional Cardiology TAVI Survey (PICTS): 10 years of transcatheter aortic valve implantation in Poland. The landscape after the first stage of Valve for Life initiative

Dąbrowski

Parma

Huczek

et al. 2021

Polish Archives of Internal Medicine

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“…A practical and reliable tool for their assessment is by using reference standards that express the frequency of birth weight distribution, which is presented as percentile values or graphical charts. In many countries, past years have seen changes in the environment, which have subsequently influenced the development of an offspring (Sowada et al 2018). These changes can significantly affect the course of pregnancy, which in turn determines the perinatal outcome (including birth weight) (Kosińska 2011).…”

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A need for an update of Polish birth weight reference norms

Hadada¹,

Kosińska²

2020

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The indicators of perinatal outcome are birth weight and gestational age. The standard method of assessing the outcome is comparing the newborn’s birth weight with the reference system, presented in the form of percentile charts. Acceleration or delay in prenatal development, which are associated with environmental changes, stress the need to validate the developmental norms. The goal of this study is to evaluate the need to construct new and accurate reference standards. The study includes data of newborns from singleton pregnancies: 4919 born in 2000 and 3683 born in 2015. Study variables included gestational age, sex, and birth weight. Percentile values estimated for two groups of infants born in years separated by a 15-year period, born in 2000 and in 2015, were compared. Birth weight percentiles, from the 28th to the 42nd week of gestation, were calculated using the Lambda Mu Sigma method. Estimated values revealed the birth weight standards in different weeks of gestational age for both years: 2000 and 2015. Comparison among medians estimated for infants born in these years showed the existence of significant differences among boys in the 28th, 36th, and 39th weeks and among girls in the 34th and 41st weeks of gestational age. As the period between the two measurements involves several years, environmental changes during this time period might have significantly affected the course of pregnancy and thus the birth weight. Hence, there is a need to validate the developmental norms. The reference standards should be renewed, and must be done on a periodical basis.

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“…Despite the ongoing reforms of primary care in Poland, one of the most longstanding problems that need to be resolved is hospitals’ indebtedness [ 13 ]. Several studies conducted on highly indebted Polish hospitals underlined the existence of financial problems connected with ineffective management and ownership structures [ 14 , 15 ].…”

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“…The complexity of the medical and financial processes that take place in hospitals, along with the general constraints in the health sector (including a relatively low level of funding), mean there is a need for more research into debt analysis [ 4 , 13 , 25 ].…”

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Debt, Ownership, and Size: The Case of Hospitals in Poland

Miszczyńska

Miszczyński

2021

IJERPH

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The goal of this study is to compare the financial performance of public hospitals according to ownership and size. The study covered public hospitals in Poland and covered two hospitals types depending on their founding authority, i.e., hospitals established and financed by the Marshal’s Office (Marshal hospitals) or the City Hall (poviat-commune hospitals). The study was based on an analysis of the hospitals’ financial situation (using debt and solvency ratios) and its relationship to the founding body and size. The verification of hypotheses was carried out using the Mann–Whitney U test. The results led to the conclusion that the vast majority of public hospitals are indebted, and their ownership structure does not affect their financial condition. The study did not confirm a significant relationship between size or ownership and the financial status of the hospital. The article aims to fill the research gap regarding the debt analysis between different types of public hospitals. It also presents a new research direction aimed at finding the factors that determine the difficult financial situation of public hospitals in Poland.

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What next after the ‘commercialization’ of public hospitals? Searching for effective solutions to achieve financial stability of the hospital sector in Poland

Cited by 19 publications

References 1 publication

The Polish Interventional Cardiology TAVI Survey (PICTS): 10 years of transcatheter aortic valve implantation in Poland. The landscape after the first stage of Valve for Life initiative

The Polish Interventional Cardiology TAVI Survey (PICTS): 10 years of transcatheter aortic valve implantation in Poland. The landscape after the first stage of Valve for Life initiative

A need for an update of Polish birth weight reference norms

Debt, Ownership, and Size: The Case of Hospitals in Poland

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