Quality and resource efficiency in hospital service provision: A geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis of stroke quality of care in Germany.

We specify a Bayesian, geoadditive Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model to assess hospital performance along the dimensions of resources and quality of stroke care in German hospitals.With 1,100 annual observations and data from 2006 to 2013 and risk-adjusted patient volume as output, we introduce a production function that captures quality, Fe

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Comparative mitochondrial genomes of four species of Sinopodisma and phylogenetic implications (Orthoptera, Melanoplinae)

In this study, the whole mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from four species were sequenced.The complete mitochondrial genomes of Sinopodisma pieli, S.houshana, S.qinlingensis, and S.wulingshanensis are 15,857 bp, 15,818 bp, 15,843 bp, and 15,872 bp in size, respectively.The 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs) begin with typical ATN codons, except for

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