Measuring efficiency in health care : analytic techniques and health policy /
With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least due to the multiple o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Efficiency in health care
- 2. The components of an efficiency model
- 3. Stochastic frontier analysis of cross-sectional data
- 4. Stochastic frontier analysis of panel data
- 5. Data envelopment analysis
- 6. The Malmquist index
- 7. A comparison of SFA and DEA
- 8. Unresolved issues and challenges in efficiency measurement
- 9. Some alternative approaches to measuring performance
- 10. Conclusions.
