will continue to be, thoroughly scrutinised for potential increases in efficiency. One way to assess hospital efficiency is … to measure the amount of resources each hospital uses to treat specific conditions. A care delivery process may be seen … as more efficient – after accounting for broader health system and market factors that may constrain the hospital from …

hospital using linked administrative health and social care data in Scotland. We make various assumptions about the probability … results show that telecare users are expected to spend a shorter time in hospital than non-users, holding other factors … length of stay in hospital, on average, than their counterparts, all things equal. Future research will involve conducting a …