Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …

Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …

data for the period between 2007/08 and 2012/13, this study examines the technical efficiency, total factor productivity … productivity index used to estimate relative technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and total factor productivity index of … 2007/08 and 2012/13, respectively. On average, Malmquist Total Factor Productivity (MTFP) of the hospitals decreased by 3 …

contextual/environmental variables on hospital inefficiencies. Methods: A two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is … the hospital-level efficiency scores are first estimated using DEA. In the second stage, the estimated DEA efficiency …,806 hospital discharges, or by transferring the excess 2.478 doctors (2.85%), 9.914 nurses and midwives (0.98%), 9.774 laboratory …