Objective. To compare the results of scoring hospital efficiency by means of two new types of frontier models, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier regression (SFR).
Study Setting. Financial records of Florida acute care hospitals in continuous operation over the period 1982-1993.
Study Design. Comparable DEA and SFR models are specified, and these models are then estimated to obtain the efficiency indexes yielded by each. The empirical results are ...