A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …

In this study, technical efficiency of Slovak general hospitals was investigated. The well-known non-parametric Data … efficiency in Slovak hospitals in the range 0.45 to 0.62 with great variations in efficiency score between individual Decision … of municipality hospitals. Although, these results must be taken with caution due to questionable quality of data, this …

technology, hospitals continue to face calls to contain costs and allocate their resources more efficiently. In this context …, efficiency has emerged as an increasingly important way for hospitals to withstand competitive pressures in the hospital market …, i.e. urgent medical cases. The link between medical urgency and hospitals’ efficiency, however, has been neglected in …

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth allows for additional health care services under restricted resources. We … period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …

hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more … physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care …

hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more … physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care …

productivity change in these institutions by applying the Malmquist approach on a four-year panel data set of 78 SUCs. The DEA …, productivity of about 62 percent of the SUCs has slightly improved in the period under review. The findings of the study point to a …

analysis to determine the resource productivity index on the basis of the same sample of countries, over the same period of … time. Resource productivity index attempts to quantify the simultaneous application and the interrelationships of … emissions are used as inputs. Then, the index of total factor productivity changes is decomposed into efficiency change and …