This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public …, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German … hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The absolute efficiency of the hospital sector …

clinically-similar procedures and the rate of hospital-acquired infections • rates of informed financial consent and out … public and private hospital systems that make like-for-like comparisons difficult. There are also data limitations, which the … hospital costs and capital costs are higher in public hospitals. The limited available evidence suggests that private hospitals …