The healthcare sector in general and hospitals in particular represent a main application
area for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This paper reviews 262 papers of DEA …

Background Efficiency refers the use of resources in ways that optimise desired outcomes.
Health system efficiency is a priority concern for policy makers globally as countries aim to …

The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health service delivery has become a
small industry. This is a review of 317 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement …

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across
a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle …

This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also
presents new comparative data on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries …

Abstract In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates,
yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other …

Using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the present study aims to measure the extent of
technical, pure technical, and scale efficiencies in 27 public sector banks (PSBs) operating …

There is a growing interest in the cross-country comparisons of the performance of national
health care systems. The present work provides a comparison of the technical efficiency of …

Madrid has recently become the site of one of the most controversial cases of public
healthcare reform in the European Union. Despite the fact that the introduction of New Public …

In this work, we analyze production performance of hospital services in Ontario (Canada), by
investigating its key determinants. Using data for the years 2003 and 2006, we follow the two …