Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is an innovating concept which emerges in organization and management theory and which is mostly applied to the health sector. As a response to the evidence found in the literature as to the lack of precise definitions of IPC and to the existence of many...

This work aims to study the efficacy and effectiveness of Spanish police forces concerning major crimes—differentiating those against property, public safety, the person, and sexual liberty and indemnity—in the 2001–2006 period, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). To study their...

This study develops a measure of the efficiency of visiting nurse (VN) agencies in Japan, examining the issues related to the measurement of efficiency, and identifying the characteristics that influence efficiency. We have employed a data envelopment analysis to measure the efficiency of 108 VN...

Policy recommendations concerning optimal scale of production units may have serious implications for the restructuring of a sector. The piecewise linear frontier production function framework (DEA) is becoming the most popular one for assessing not only technical efficiency of operations, but...

Based on the seminal paper of Farrell (J R Stat Soc Ser A (General) 120(3):253–290, <CitationRef CitationID="CR21">1957</CitationRef>), researchers have developed several methods for measuring efficiency. Nowadays, the most prominent representatives are nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric stochastic frontier...</citationref>

This paper analyses the productive efficiency of 141 public hospitals from 1998 to 2004 in two Canadian provinces; one a small province with a few small cities and a generally more rural population and the other a large province that is more urban in nature, with a population who mainly live in...

This study follows the structure of Grifell-Tatjé and Lovell (Manag Sci 45:1177–1193, <CitationRef CitationID="CR20">1999</CitationRef>) and uses the non-parametric approach to decompose the change in profit of Taiwanese banks into various drivers. However, risk was never considered in the papers based on profit decomposition. Without...</citationref>

The standard data envelopment analysis measures of the Charnes–Cooper–Rhodes (CCR) and slacks-based measure (SBM) are ratio-form efficiency measures, which do not yield the closest projections. However, because of difficulties implementing projections based on standard measures, the closest...

Measuring the performance of Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) is a complicated issue: data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular quantitative tool in the past literature. However, the subjective opinions of NPOs could disturb their actual performance, and this problem is seldom considered. In...

Countries striving to improve their HSE should aim to impact population behavior and welfare rather than only ensure adequate medical care. In addition, they may consider avoiding specific institutional arrangements, namely gatekeeping and the presence of multiple insurers. Finally, the...