introduction: managers, as the members of decision making team in hospitals, are required to understand economic issues in order to increase their knowledge, make better decisions making, and bring about economic growth in hospitals. thus by measuring the managers’ level of economic knowledge and understanding their weaknesses at this field, we can take an important step in line with this trans...

introduction: cost estimation is a important tool which assist the managers to plan and to control the economic functions of the organization. the present study aims to identify the cost of a cesarean surgery in one of the first class public hospitals in iran. methodology: reviewing all expenses of the hospital documents in the financial unit, the cost of a cesarean surgery was determined throu...

background and objectives: efficient hospital management requires appropriate cost and price strategies. informed decision on costs and prices of healthcare services needs estimation of costs of unit services using microeconomic techniques. there is lack of knowledge and skills for such costing methods in the healthcare sector of developing countries such as iran. this study aims at detail desc...

Recent initiatives to hold back cross-border mergers and acquisitions for ‘strategic’ reasons have made headline news. We discuss whether the initiatives may mark the start of a new protectionist era. We argue that standard globalization indicators show no such signs. However, an increasing divergence of incomes and increased insecurity might raise resistance against the globalization process. ...

background as part of the eurodrg project, researchers from eleven countries (i.e. austria, england, estonia, finland, france, germany, ireland, netherlands, poland, sweden, and spain) compared how their diagnosis-related groups (drg) systems deal with cholecystectomy patients. the study aims to assist surgeons and national authorities to optimize their drg systems.   methods national or region...