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 …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as …