A major feature of healthcare systems is substantial variation in hospital productivity. Productivity widely varies … across NHS hospitals. This research investigates factors that may explain variations in hospital productivity. We employ a … hospital effects to identify some of the determinants of hospital performance. The findings point to the significance of …

improvement in the productivity of Vietnamese hospitals over the period 1998-2006, with a progress in total factor productivity of … 1.4% per year. Furthermore, the differences in hospital efficiency can be attributed to both the regulatory changes and … hospital-specific characteristics. The user fees and autonomy measures were found to increase technical efficiency. Provincial …

Since the late eighties the Italian National Health System, in particular hospital care, has undergone deep reforms …. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital … composition of input endowment and the case-mix of hospital services provided. However a significant portion of variance is …

Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …

countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

global budgeting. In this paper we investigate whether the different reimbursement systems adopted in the Italian hospital … different financing mechanisms on hospital’s performance. To this purpose, we carry out a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis …. The results show a significant impact of the use of DRG-based PPS on hospital efficiency level. In particular, we find …

The Australian state of Victoria experienced a fundamental change in public hospital funding in 1993 with the … hospital efficiency levels …

physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physiciantrained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …