This paper reviews 188 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement. The
techniques used are mainly based on non-parametric data envelopment analysis, but there …

There has been increasing interest in measuring the productive performance of health care
services, since the mid-1980s. This paper reviews this literature and, in particular, the …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

The second edition of this book, as in the first edition, places emphasis on the application of
contemporary performance and efficiency evaluation methods, using data envelopment …

This paper provides the first taxonomy of hospital efficiency studies that uses data
envelopment analysis (DEA) and related techniques. We provide a systematic review of 79 …

Using a sample of Virginia hospitals, performance measures of quality were examined as
they related to technical efficiency. Efficiency scores for the study hospitals were computed …

Abstract Background The Government of Ghana has been implementing various health
sector reforms (eg user fees in public health facilities, decentralization, sector-wide …

Providers with lower costs may be more efficient and, therefore, provide better care than
those with higher costs. However, the relationship between risk-adjusted costs (often …

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise
of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much of the literature in this area …

This study evaluates the technical efficiency of federal hospitals in the United States using a
variable returns to scale, input-oriented, data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology …