technology, hospitals continue to face calls to contain costs and allocate their resources more efficiently. In this context …, efficiency has emerged as an increasingly important way for hospitals to withstand competitive pressures in the hospital market …, i.e. urgent medical cases. The link between medical urgency and hospitals’ efficiency, however, has been neglected in …

surgical clinical departments in 15 hospitals in Greece and their technical efficiency was assessed by the use of data …

In a recent paper on measuring efficiency of hospitals by Al‐Shammari a set of 15 hospitals were compared across three … the proposed methodology in deriving additional findings and conclusions for efficiency measurement of hospitals. These …

This paper seeks to measure and evaluate the productive efficiency of health‐care organizations (hospitals) using a … relatively best practice hospitals in the observation set and locates the relatively inefficient hospitals by comparison with the … outputs for 15 hospitals for a three‐year period. The hospital input measures included are: number of bed days, number of …

idea that hospitals can be specialized in terms of professional expertise or technical equipment within a given diagnosis … frontier approach on randomly selected data from the annual reports of 1,239 acute care German hospitals for the years 2000 …

about 216 non-corporatized and 176 corporatized Portuguese hospitals for the period 2002–2009. Five models were applied … hospitals presented the highest efficiency consistency, they had also the lowest levels of productivity, while the hospitals …

also observed an increase in efficiency for the first three years after hospitals were converted to private non … gains of hospitals converted to for-profit status were significantly lower in the diagnosis-related groups (DRG) era than in … the pre-DRG era. Altogether, our results suggest that converting hospitals to private for-profit status may be an …

the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in 2004 aimed to increase efficiency of hospitals. The objective of …-profit hospitals. The results of the studies are quite mixed. However, in line with the evidence found in studies from other countries … policy makers as private for-profit hospitals are often perceived the most efficient ownership type by the public. …