Health and efficiency concepts -- Efficiency measurement techniques -- Measuring efficiency in health services -- Application of efficiency measurement in health services -- Advanced applications and recent developments -- Future directions

After reviewing over 300 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement, the techniques used are mainly non-parametric data envelopment analysis based, but there is increasing use of parametric techniques, such as stochastic frontier analysis. Applications both to hospitals and wider health...

Despite being widely used in health economics, dynamic models of health and healthcare typically assume that the persistence in these outcomes is the same for every individual. Understanding the extent and drivers of heterogeneity in persistence is essential for the design and evaluation of...