METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS |
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| Authors: | Vicente Pina Lourdes Torres |
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| Affiliation: | The authors are from the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Zaragoza, Spain. As the information contained in this study has not been made public, the name of each hospital has been changed to a letter to guarantee the confidentiality of the results. |
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| Abstract: | The specific characteristics of the public health care sector prevent the normal working of the market and the trend toward the efficient provision of services. The present study was carried out to offer the Audit Office of the Basque Country and Navarra an objective point of reference from which to measure the efficiency of clinical services. This study consists of an evaluation of the efficient production and utilization of the resources—intermediate services—that hospitals provide to medical staff for carrying out the diagnosis and treatment of patients, together with the efficient use of these intermediate services by the aforementioned medical staff. |
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| Keywords: | efficiency DEA healthcare public hospitals |
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