extensive discussions between hospitals and insurance companies, which are jointly responsible to deliver benchmarking results … potential of nonparametric frontier estimation for hospital benchmarking in Germany, a comparison of hospitals, which provide … of the services which hospitals provide, substantial productivity differences can be detected. Beyond simply identifying …

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 …