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 …

improvement in the productivity of Vietnamese hospitals over the period 1998-2006, with a progress in total factor productivity of … 1.4% per year. Furthermore, the differences in hospital efficiency can be attributed to both the regulatory changes and … hospital-specific characteristics. The user fees and autonomy measures were found to increase technical efficiency. Provincial …

Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …

The Australian state of Victoria experienced a fundamental change in public hospital funding in 1993 with the … hospital efficiency levels …

global budgeting. In this paper we investigate whether the different reimbursement systems adopted in the Italian hospital … different financing mechanisms on hospital’s performance. To this purpose, we carry out a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis …. The results show a significant impact of the use of DRG-based PPS on hospital efficiency level. In particular, we find …

health system in order to provide hospital directors and administrators and health service policy-makers with information to … cholera treatment costs were calculated using hospital files and statistics and an in-hospital surveillance system of the … excessive. The most important contributor was excess recurrent costs (90%), including extended hospital stays, disproportionate …