Consolidation of working hours and work-life balance in anaesthesiologists - A cross-sectional national survey.

Currently, healthcare management fosters a maximization of performance despite a relative shortage of specialists. We evaluated anaesthesiologists' workload, physical health, emotional well-being, job satisfaction and working conditions under increased pressure from consolidated working hours. A nationwide cross-sectional survey was performed in Austrian anaesthesiologists (overall response rate 41.

Follow Your Heart: Survival Chances and Costs after Heart Attacks-An Instrumental Variable Approach.

Objective: To determine the effect of heart attack patients' access to intensive treatment on mortality and costs.

Data Sources: Administrative data of 4,920 patients with acute myocardial infarction from the Austrian Social Security Database and the Upper Austrian Sickness Fund for the period 2002-2011.

Study Design: As treatment intensity in a hospital largely depends on whether it has a catheterization laboratory, we explore the effects of patients' initial admission to such specialized percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) hospitals.

Out-of-pocket expenditures for pharmaceuticals: lessons from the Austrian household budget survey.

Background: Paying pharmaceuticals out of pocket is an important source of financing pharmaceutical consumption. Only limited empirical knowledge is available on the determinants of these expenditures.

Objectives: In this article we analyze which characteristics of private households influence out-of-pocket pharmaceutical expenditure (OOPPE) in Austria.

Out-of-pocket expenditure by private households for dental services - empirical evidence from Austria.

Aims: Dental services differ from other health services in several dimensions. One important difference is that a substantial share of costs of dental services-especially costs beyond routine dental treatment-is paid directly by the patient out-of-pocket.

Settings And Design: This study analyses the socio-economic determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for dental services (OOPE) in Austria at the household level.

Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system - a distributional analysis.

Background: Out-of-pocket spending is an important source of healthcare financing even in countries with established prepaid financing of healthcare. However, out-of-pocket payments (OOPP) may have undesirable effects from an equity perspective. In this study, we analyse the distributive effects of OOPP in Austria based on cross-sectional information from the Austrian Household Budget Survey 2009/10.