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This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data...
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Background: A variety of institutional and technological factors have led to reduced lengths of stay (LOS) among patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (MI) over the past two decades, but large international variations in LOS remain. One factor influencing LOS variation may be the...
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Efforts to improve the efficiency of the hospital sector in the National Health Service (NHS) have concentrated on measuring the unit costs of service provision. Hospitals identified as having high unit costs are considered poor performers. Several indices have been constructed to measure unit...
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