Efficiency measurement and the operationalization of hospital production.
From: Health Services Research
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Date: 4/1/1996
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Author: Magnussen, Jon
Objective. To discuss the usefulness of efficiency measures as instruments of monitoring and resource allocation by analyzing their invariance to changes in the operationalization of hospital production. Study Setting. Norwegian hospitals over the three-year period 1989-1991. Study Design. Efficiency is measured using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The distribution of efficiency and the ranking of hospitals is compared across models using various distribution-free tests. Data Collection. ...
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