Haute Ecole de Santé de Fribourg

Améliorer l'implémentation de l'Advance Care Planning auprès des résidents en établissements médico-sociaux : une revue de littérature

Maillard, Muriel ; Moënnat, Adèle ; Oberson, Florence ; Rosado-Walker, Amélie (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Santé de Fribourg, 2018.

L’Advance Care Planning est un processus continu de communication par lequel le patient exprime ses valeurs et ses préférences en matière de soins en collaboration avec sa famille et les professionnels de la santé. L’Advance Care Planning est encouragé pour améliorer la qualité des soins de fin de vie. Cette revue de littérature a pour but d’identifier des interventions infirmières...

Università della Svizzera italiana

The impact of the institutional form on the cost efficiency of nursing homes

Di Giorgio, Laura ; Filippini, Massimo ; Masiero, Giuliano

In Switzerland, nursing home services are mainly provided by regulated public and private nonprofit organizations. Some of them are created by local governments as foundations. This provides a unique setting to analyze the impact of the institutional form on the performance of nursing homes. We propose a model where the institutional form is represented as a legal constraint which affects...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Economies of scale and efficiency measurement in Switzerland's nursing homes

Farsi, Mehdi ; Filippini, Massimo ; Lunati, Diego

In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics, 2008, vol. 144, no. 3, p. 359-378

This paper examines the cost efficiency in the nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers because of the explosive growth of national expenditure on elderly care and the aging of the population. A stochastic cost frontier model with a translog function has been applied to a balanced panel data of 1780 observations from 356 nursing homes operating over five years (1998-2002)...