ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2014
The effect of quality and socio-demographic variables on efficiency measures in primary health care.
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- 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
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- Tackling maternal mortality by improving technical efficiency in the production of primary health services: longitudinal evidence from the Mexican case.Health care management science · 2020Article
- Equity and efficiency of health care resource allocation in Jiangsu Province, China.International journal for equity in health · 2020Article
- Efficiency in chronic illness care coordination: public-private collaboration models vs. traditional management.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Evaluation of Biomedical Laboratory Performance Optimisation using the DEA Method.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2020Article
- The Efficiency of Primary Health Care Institutions in the Counties of Hunan Province, China: Data from 2009 to 2017.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Defining the Optimal Size of Medical Laboratories at the Primary Level of Health Care with Data Envelopment Analysis: Defining the Efficiency of Medical Laboratories.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2019Article
- Equity and efficiency of primary health care resource allocation in mainland China.International journal for equity in health · 2018Article
- The impact of healthcare reform on the efficiency of public county hospitals in China.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- Descriptive study of association between quality of care and empathy and burnout in primary care.BMC medical ethics · 2017Article
- Efficiency and productivity measurement of rural township hospitals in China: a bootstrapping data envelopment analysis.BMJ open · 2016Article
- Technical efficiency of women's health prevention programs in Bucaramanga, Colombia: a four-stage analysis.BMC health services research · 2016Observational
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Abstract
This paper aims to extend the literature on measuring efficiency in primary health care by considering the influence of quality indicators and environmental variables conjointly in a case study. In particular, environmental variables are represented by patients' characteristics and quality indicators are based on technical aspects. In order to deal with both aspects, different extensions of data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology are applied. Specifically, we use weight restrictions to ensure that the efficiency scores assigned to the evaluated units take quality data into account, and a four-stage model to identify which exogenous variables have impact on performance as well as to compute efficiency scores that incorporate this information explicitly. The results provide evidence in support of the importance of including information about both aspects in the analysis so that the efficiency measures obtained can be interpreted as an accurate reflection of performance.
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