Hospital centralization and performance in Denmark-Ten years on.

Terkel Christiansen¹, Karsten Vrangbæk²

¹COHERE - Health Economics Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

²Department of Public Health and Department of Political Science, Center for Healthy Aging and Center for Health Economics and Policy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: kv@ifs.ku.dk.

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Abstract

Denmark implemented a major reform of the administrative and political structure in 2007 when the previous 13 counties were merged into five new regions and the number of municipalities was reduced from 271 to 98. A main objective was to create administrative units that were large enough to support a hospital structure with few acute hospitals in each region and to centralize specialized care in f…

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