ArticleOpen medicine (Warsaw, Poland)2017
Measuring Efficiency of Secondary Healthcare Providers in Slovenia.
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- Technical efficiency of public hospitals in east Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Hospital efficiency in the eastern mediterranean region: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Efficiency and Productivity of Public Hospitals in Serbia Using DEA-Malmquist Model and Tobit Regression Model, 2015-2019.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Improving public hospital efficiency and fiscal space implications: the case of Mauritius.International journal for equity in health · 2020Article
- Evaluation of Biomedical Laboratory Performance Optimisation using the DEA Method.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2020Article
- Regional Differences and Influencing Factors of Allocation Efficiency of Rural Public Health Resources in China.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
The chief aim of this study was to analyze secondary healthcare providers' efficiency, focusing on the efficiency analysis of Slovene general hospitals. We intended to present a complete picture of technical, allocative, and cost or economic efficiency of general hospitals.
methodsWe researched the aspects of efficiency with two econometric methods. First, we calculated the necessary quotients of efficiency with the stochastic frontier analyze (SFA), which are realized by econometric evaluation of stochastic frontier functions; then, with the data envelopment analyze (DEA), we calculated the necessary quotients that are based on the linear programming method.
resultsResults on measures of efficiency showed that the two chosen methods produced two different conclusions. The SFA method concluded Celje General Hospital is the most efficient general hospital, whereas the DEA method concluded Brežice General Hospital was the hospital to be declared as the most efficient hospital.
conclusionOur results are a useful tool that can aid managers, payers, and designers of healthcare policy to better understand how general hospitals operate. The participants can accordingly decide with less difficulty on any further business operations of general hospitals, having the best practices of general hospitals at their disposal.
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