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 …

In this article we examine the potential effect of market structure on hospital technical efficiency as a measure of … region of Catalonia in 1990, we estimated geographic hospital markets through the Elzinga--Hogarty approach, based on patient … scale efficiency scores for each hospital was obtained specifying a Data Envelopment Analysis. According to the data nearly …

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 …

influential factors in determining the efficiency level, while the operating scales are not relevant to the productivity level. We …

measures and Malmquist productivity indices. The efficiency and productivity measures are obtained from non-parametric linear …, using data from the years 1992 and 1993. Significant positive changes in productivity are found mainly for departments … located at medium sized hospitals. On average, the positive productivity change is due to a progressive development of the …