Brazil's Unified Health System [Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)] accounts for most inpatient care in Brazil. Based on data from the two largest governmental health care surveys for 1997, 1998 and 1999 this work describes some aspects of the Brazilian hospital system. We focus our analysis on four...

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...

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...