ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
Based on regional heterogeneity: measurement of hospital service efficiency and analysis of spatial effects.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prevention of Postoperative Delirium in Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery Using Multicomponent Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial benefit analysis of the coupling coordination of China's three medical systems.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Efficiency divergence and convergence in China's hospital sector: empirical insights from Guangdong Province using a multi-method approach.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Hospital service efficiency is a vital indicator of the effectiveness of a country's healthcare system. If regional heterogeneity is ignored in measuring the efficiency of health services, erroneous judgments may result. Methods: This study utilized the Meta-Frontier Slack-Based Measure (SBM) model to evaluate the efficiency of hospital services across various Chinese provinces from 2009 to 2022. Efficiency comparisons were made using regional and common frontiers, while the technical gap and its decomposition index were applied to identify the sources of efficiency disparities among regions. The Spatial Durbin Model was then employed to analyze the spatial spillover effects of hospital service efficiency. Results: The findings reveal that under the common frontier, the Central South regions demonstrate the highest efficiency, averaging 0.7549, followed by East China at 0.7184, the Southwest at 0.6245, the Northwest at 0.5497, North China at 0.4884, and the Northeast at 0.3571. Technical disparities among China's regional hospital services form three distinct tiers: the first tier includes Central South China, the second tier comprises the Southwest, Northwest, and North China, and the third tier is the Northeast. Management inefficiency predominantly affects the first tier, whereas both management and technical inefficiencies impact the second and third tiers. Furthermore, hospital service efficiency has significant spatial spillover effects, notably enhancing the efficiency of neighboring provinces. Conclusion: To enhance healthcare service efficiency, it is imperative to implement precise identification of technological and managerial deficiencies, coupled with the formulation of long-term strategic plans adaptive to demographic shifts and evolving healthcare demands, while simultaneously strengthening crisis management capabilities to ensure the stability and sustainability of service efficacy.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.