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Efficiency measurement of health care: A review of non-parametric methods and applications

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Bruce Hollingsworth, Dr Philip Dawson

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Abstract

There has been increasing interest in measuring the productive performance of health care services, since the mid-1980s. This paper reviews this literature and, in particular, the concept and measurement of efficiency and productivity. Concerning measurement, we focus on the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a technique particularly appropriate when multiple outputs are produced from multiple inputs. Applications to hospitals and to the wider context of general health care are reviewed and the empirical evidence from both the USA and Europe (EU) is that public rather than private provision is more efficient. © Baltzer Science Publishers BV.

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Author(s): Hollingsworth B, Dawson PJ, Maniadakis N

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Health Care Management Science

Year: 1999

Volume: 2

Issue: 3

Pages: 161-172

Print publication date: 01/01/1999

ISSN (print): 1386-9620

ISSN (electronic): 1572-9389

Publisher: Springer

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1019087828488

DOI: 10.1023/A:1019087828488

PubMed id: 10934540

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