Performance Indicators (PI) has been frequently used as tools for hospitals performance evaluation in Brazil. The presente work evaluates four public and two private hospitals using that approach and a frontier methodology referred in the literature as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA was...

This paper presents an exercise on comparative efficiency evaluation of 43 Brazilian federal university hospitals (HUs). The methodology used is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), along with statistical non-parametric procedures and specific tests. As direct extensions of DEA, the paper also...

This paper studies the performance of 45 Brazilian federal teaching hospitals, within five semesters as from 1998 by connecting and assessing technical efficiency scores and service indicators. The efficiency scores are obtained from a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. The service...