. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital … hospitals over the period 2000-2004 and applying DEA, a non-parametric method. Individual efficiency is partly explained by the …

differences between regions. It highlights the following: (1) the reduction in the number of hospitals and hospital beds and the … high level of migration towards northern hospitals; (5) with reference to costs, increasing returns to scale up to a given …

. This paper narrows this gap by using data regarding a sample of patients hospitalized in 9 hospitals of Emilia Romagna, a … evaluate 29 different aspect of quality of care which refer to 6 domains of health system responsiveness (communication, social … support, privacy, dignity, waiting times and quality of facilities). We make use of this structure of the data by adopting a …

hospitals of Emi lia Romagna, a Region of Italy. The data have been collected by the Agency for Heal th Care and Social Services … - patients, who have been asked to evaluate 29 different aspect of quality of care which refer to 6 domains of healt h system … responsiveness (communication, social support, privacy, dignity, waiting times and quality of facilities). We make use of this …

economic literature has examined the case when the demand for health services depends on the quality offered, but because of … information asymmetry, we assume that quality is not directly observable by patients. However, patients can obtain information … quality / cost reducing effort trade off, but optimal levels for all the variables of interest are not achievable. Controlling …