A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … 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 …

Background A good health care system and, especially, the provision of efcient hospital care are the goals of national … and regional health policies. However, the scope of general hospital care in the 16 federal states in Germany varies … considerably from region to region. The objectives of this paper are to evaluate the technical efciencies of all general hospitals …