This paper uses a fully nonparametric approach to estimate efficiency measures for primary care units incorporating the … have a significant and negative effect on efficiency estimates. …

economic journals. The paper categorizes the journals into four main categories (A to D) based on their efficiency levels. The …

measure efficiency. However, very few works are published for Italian hospitals, despite the fact that efficiency was the main … driver guiding healthcare reform in the 1990s. Objectives: The objective of this study is derive technical efficiency and … the complexity of treated hospitals cases influences technical efficiency. Methods/approaches: The DEA technique and DEA …

assesses the technical and scale efficiency of Senegalese public hospitals using Data Envelopment Analysis. For Senegal, I find … that the public hospitals’ technical efficiency mean of 0.969 is higher than what was found for African hospitals in … general but, the mean scale efficiency of 0.881 is very similar. However, Senegal has technically inefficient hospitals that …

This paper analyzes technical efficiency in the production of aggregate health outcomes of reduced infant mortality and … envelopment analysis (DEA) reveals that some districts achieve relative efficiency advantages; including those with good health …

We compute DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist indexes for a panel data set comprising 68 Portuguese public hospitals … are significant fluctuations among NHS hospitals in terms of individual efficiency scores from one year to the other. …

of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three different approaches relying on, respectively: i) unit costs for … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …

sector. The reform had three main aims; cost control, efficiency and reduced waiting times. This study investigates whether … are robust to choice of efficiency estimation technique and various definition of when the reform effect takes place. …