The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001–2008 using the Stochastic … Frontier Analysis. We control for determinants of the inefficiency and found that bigger, not-for-profit and teaching hospitals … tend to be less efficient, as well as hospitals in municipalities with a larger share of the elderly. Small hospitals …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001–2008 using the Stochastic … Frontier Analysis. We control for determinants of the inefficiency and found that bigger, not-for-profit and teaching hospitals … tend to be less efficient, as well as hospitals in municipalities with a larger share of the elderly. Small hospitals …

the probability of not having enough capacity to satisfy demand, hospitals have to build excess capacity since demand is … uncertain, and incur on the associated costs. Using panel data that comprises information for 43 Portuguese NHS hospitals for … (outputs, the price of inputs, some of the hospitals’ organizational characteristics) and an additional term measuring the …

acute admission hospitals. Within the next 5–10 years, the number of public hospitals offering acute admission will be … reduced from 35 to approximately 20 larger hospitals. As the administrative data may be biased during the middle of a … restructuring process our objective was to analyze whether the configuration of Danish public hospitals was subject to economies of …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. Inefficiency decreases with less than 10,000 patients treated a year, larger population, and more hospitals in the region. …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-prot ownership is favorable to eciency for big hospitals. Generally … introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as a reaction to …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. Inefficiency decreases with less than 10,000 patients treated a year, larger population, and more hospitals in the region. …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as …