In addition to providing direct patient care, some hospitals also are used as training grounds for medical students and … hospitals than their non-teaching counterparts. In this paper, we use the data envelopment analysis methodology to assess the … relative productive efficiency of teaching hospitals in our sample. Outputs will be defined as an array of inpatient and …

hospitals in the U.S. between 1985 and 1995. Results show that a hospital is less likely to adopt the technology if HMO market … number of adopters. In markets where fewer than a critical number of neighboring hospitals have already adopted, the …