variations using novel data on total hip arthroplasty (THA) in Switzerland. Methodology: The study sample comprises 20 …,918 patients from 110 hospital departments who underwent THA in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Two primary dependent variables are …, and THA case costs represent the total inpatient costs of the initial THA as reported by the hospital. Interdepartmental …

effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable … in Switzerland. This study is of interest from three points of view. First, contrary to most existing work, patient days … countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the …

This paper applies a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to study the efficiency and productivity changes in the Swiss … cantonal bank sector in the period 2006-2014. The efficiency analysis is conducted by applying the production input … is related to a frontier-shift (technological innovation) rather than to improvements in the technical efficiency. The …

Die Effizienz von Krankenhäusern ist für die Krankenversicherer, die staatlichen Verwaltungen und für das … Krankenhausmanagement von Interesse. In dieser Studie wird die relative Effizienz von schweizer Krankenhäusern mit der nichtparametrischen …