ArticleJournal of medical systems2011
Measuring technical efficiency in primary health care: the effect of exogenous variables on results.
Article in Journal of medical systems, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Approaches to Measure Efficiency in Primary Care: A Systematic Literature Review.Applied health economics and health policy · 2022Pooled it
- Primary care efficiency measurement using data envelopment analysis: a systematic review.Journal of medical systems · 2015Pooled it
- Technical efficiency of sub-district level hospitals in Bangladesh: a comparative frontier analysis.Health economics review · 2026Article
- Modelling efficiency in primary healthcare using the DEA methodology: an empirical analysis in a healthcare district.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Successes, weaknesses, and recommendations to strengthen primary health care: a scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- Estimating the efficiency of primary health care services and its determinants: evidence from provincial panel data in China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Efficiency in the governance of the Covid-19 pandemic: political and territorial factors.Globalization and health · 2021Review
- Importance of Statistical Evidence in Estimating Valid DEA Scores.Journal of medical systems · 2016Article
- Using data envelopment analysis to analyse the efficiency of primary care units.Journal of medical systems · 2014Article
- The effect of quality and socio-demographic variables on efficiency measures in primary health care.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2014Article
- Organisational determinants of production and efficiency in general practice: a population-based study.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2013Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to extend the existing literature about efficiency measurement in primary health care with the application of a recently developed method to deal with exogenous variables. In this context, these variables are represented by the main characteristics of the covered population. The use of this technique allows calculating more accurate efficiency scores that can reflect the performance of units more properly. Our results show that the inclusion of these variables in the evaluation has a great impact on both the values of efficiency scores and the rank of units. This analysis has been carried out using a great amount of data available about primary health care centers in the Spanish region of Extremadura.
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