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Does the Extent of Per-Case Payment System Affect Hospital Efficiency? Evidence from the Italian NHS

Cavalieri, Marina; Guccio, Calogero; Lisi, Domenico; … - 2014

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 …

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A review of pay-for-performance programs in the inpatient sector in OECD countries

Milstein, Ricarda; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2015

Background: Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals. However, little is known about whether such...

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Patients' satisfaction with the NHS : a novel indicator for Portugal

Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2018

provided by the NHS in Portugal. …

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Health system efficiency in OECD countries : dynamic network DEA approach

Gavurova, Beata; Kocisova, Kristina; Sopko, Jakub - In: Health economics review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-25

Background: In recent years, measuring and evaluating the efficiency of health systems has been explored in the context of seeking resources to ensure the sustainability of 'countries' health and social systems and addressing various crises in the health sector. The study aims to quantify and...

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Efficiency in Production of Health : A Stochastic Frontier Analysis for Indian States

Chakrabarti, Anindita - 2010

It has been increasingly recognised that apart from medical inputs, a wide range of socio-economic factors plays an important role in determining health. The objective of the study has been to ascertain the impact of predominantly medical inputs on health status of individuals and simultaneously...

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Healthcare system efficiency and its drivers in pre- and COVID-19 pandemic settings

Vishniakov, Dmitry; Kasiev, Naken Kasievič; … - In: Business, mangagement and economics engineering : BMEE 21 (2023) 2, pp. 293-310

Purpose - The aim of the study is to assess healthcare system efficiency in both regular circumstances and during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on key factors influencing efficiency, and offer health authorities insights into healthcare system resilience. Research methodology - The...

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Estimating Fixed Effects Stochastic Frontier Panel Models Under ‘Wrong’ Skewness with an Application to Health Care Efficiency in Germany

Haschka, Rouven E.; Wied, Dominik - 2022

Typically, the error term in stochastic frontier models is assumed to be positively skewed; however, efficiency scores are biased if this assumption is violated. This paper considers the case in which also negative skewness is allowed in the model. In contrast to other approaches, this skewness is...

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