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Cost Pressure in Hospitals - Staff shortages and an influx of patients

August 6, 2013

Profit orientation, cost efficiency - terms familiar from the private sector. But how does a hospital function as a commercial enterprise? The Giessen and Marburg University Hospital provides an example: more patients, more treatment, more revenues - but also more work for nursing staff.

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Report by Anja Kimmig.