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Evaluating the effect of organization and context on technical efficiency: a second-stage DEA analysis of Italian hospitals

2022

Objective: the purpose of this study was to compare the technical efficiency of Italian hospitals at a regional level and to examine if differences could be explained by organisational and contextual factors. Technical efficiency was defined as the ability of the operating units evaluated to use optimal resource levels for their level of output.Methods: the effect of external factors was explored through a second stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Efficiency scores were calculated for each hospital using the DEA method (Stage I). Through Tobit regression analysis, the estimated efficiency scores were regressed against a set of organisational and contextual characteristics beyond manager…

Biostatistics; Quality Evaluation in Healthcare; Public Healthlcsh:R5-920Hospital efficiencySecond-stage DEA; Tobit regression; Hospital efficiency; Organization; ContextSettore SECS-S/02 - Statistica Per La Ricerca Sperimentale E Tecnologicabusiness.industrylcsh:Public aspects of medicineContextDistribution (economics)lcsh:RA1-1270Context (language use)Population demographicsStage iiSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E ApplicataSettore MED/01 - Statistica MedicaSecond-stage DEAResource (project management)StatisticsData envelopment analysisTobit modelStage (hydrology)lcsh:Medicine (General)businessOrganizationTobit regressionEpidemiology, Biostatistics, and Public Health
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A cost and performance comparison of Public Private Partnership and public hospitals in Spain

2016

Public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives are extending around the world, especially in Europe, as an innovation to traditional public health systems, with the intention of making them more efficient. There is a varied range of PPP models with different degrees of responsibility from simple public sector contracts with the private, up to the complete privatisation of the service. As such, we may say the involvement of the private sector embraces the development, financing and provision of public infrastructures and delivery services. In this paper, one of the oldest PPP initiatives developed in Spain and transferred to other European and Latin American countries is evaluated for first ti…

FinanceECONOMIA APLICADAPublic economicsbusiness.industryHospital efficiencyResearch030503 health policy & servicesHealth PolicyPublic sectorPrivate sectorHealth administration03 medical and health sciencesPublic–private partnership0302 clinical medicineHealth managementNew public managementGeneral partnershipData envelopment analysisddc:330030212 general & internal medicine0305 other medical sciencebusinessHealth policyPublic-private partnershipPublic finance
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