title: [Hospital structure and control measures].
abstract: A new legislation concerning financial matters of hospitals in Germany requires fundamental changes and adjustment. Formerly grown structures of a high-grade centralization erode into a process of change. Despite hospitals will maintain their non-profit character in public health services, modifications of medical care processes will promote elements of cost-centres. All medical care units as well as hospital management are confronted with rising requirements concerning performance and transparency. Increasingly patients and social health insurances behave like self-confident customers not willing to accept rising costs. Public health services loose their character of a planned economy. Hospitals with features of health-entrepreneurship are on the incline. A process of quality-planning and efficient management has been evoqued.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt am Main.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gürkan
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005858:Germany; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*
vernacular_title: Krankenhausstruktur und Steuerungsmassnahmen.