8
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      International comparisons of the technical efficiency of the hospital sector: panel data analysis of OECD countries using parametric and non-parametric approaches.

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          There is a growing interest in the cross-country comparisons of the performance of national health care systems. The present work provides a comparison of the technical efficiency of the hospital sector using unbalanced panel data from OECD countries over the period 2000-2009. The estimation of the technical efficiency of the hospital sector is performed using nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Internal and external validity of findings is assessed by estimating the Spearman rank correlations between the results obtained in different model specifications. The panel-data analyses using two-step DEA and one-stage SFA show that countries, which have higher health care expenditure per capita, tend to have a more technically efficient hospital sector. Whether the expenditure is financed through private or public sources is not related to the technical efficiency of the hospital sector. On the other hand, the hospital sector in countries with higher income inequality and longer average hospital length of stay is less technically efficient.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          Health Policy
          Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
          1872-6054
          0168-8510
          Sep 2013
          : 112
          : 1-2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University of Hamburg, Esplanade 36, D-20354 Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: yauheniya.varabyova@wiso.uni-hamburg.de.
          Article
          S0168-8510(13)00067-5
          10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.03.003
          23558262
          dbbc866a-e673-4b1c-b925-41979c3d4150
          Copyright © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.. All rights reserved.
          History

          DEA,Hospital sector,International comparison,SFA,Technical efficiency

          Comments

          Comment on this article