A major feature of healthcare systems is substantial variation in hospital productivity. Productivity widely varies … across NHS hospitals. This research investigates factors that may explain variations in hospital productivity. We employ a … hospital effects to identify some of the determinants of hospital performance. The findings point to the significance of …

The introduction of hospital reimbursement based on diagnosis related groups (DRG) in 2004 has been a conspicuous … attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … of negative spatial spillovers among German hospital performance can be diagnosed. This result is in line with a rise of …

countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

through an upgrade of the top health centers in the country, particularly in the regions without a hospital, into public …

We used Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) data to capture more detailed outputs and measured hospital efficiency … hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR: the expected mortality rate to the observed mortality rate) obtained from the DPC … dummy variables for each hospital to the more traditional SFA, and complementing the fixed effects with these dummy …