Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency
Frontier techniques, including data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), have been used to measure health care provider efficiency in hundreds of published studies. Although these methods have the potential to be useful to decision makers, their utility is limited by bo...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Published: |
2011
|
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14446 |
| _version_ | 1848748624580706304 |
|---|---|
| author | Mutter, R. Rosko, M. Greene, William Wilson, P. |
| author_facet | Mutter, R. Rosko, M. Greene, William Wilson, P. |
| author_sort | Mutter, R. |
| building | Curtin Institutional Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | Frontier techniques, including data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), have been used to measure health care provider efficiency in hundreds of published studies. Although these methods have the potential to be useful to decision makers, their utility is limited by both methodological questions concerning their application, as well as some disconnect between the information they provide and the insight sought by decision makers. The articles in this special issue focus on the application of DEA and SFA to hospitals with the hope of making these techniques more accurate and accessible to end users. This introduction to the special issue highlights the importance of measuring the efficiency of health care providers, provides a background on frontier techniques, contains an overview of the articles in the special issue, and suggests a research agenda for DEA and SFA. © The Author(s) 2011. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T07:08:00Z |
| format | Journal Article |
| id | curtin-20.500.11937-14446 |
| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T07:08:00Z |
| publishDate | 2011 |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-144462017-09-13T15:02:45Z Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency Mutter, R. Rosko, M. Greene, William Wilson, P. Frontier techniques, including data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), have been used to measure health care provider efficiency in hundreds of published studies. Although these methods have the potential to be useful to decision makers, their utility is limited by both methodological questions concerning their application, as well as some disconnect between the information they provide and the insight sought by decision makers. The articles in this special issue focus on the application of DEA and SFA to hospitals with the hope of making these techniques more accurate and accessible to end users. This introduction to the special issue highlights the importance of measuring the efficiency of health care providers, provides a background on frontier techniques, contains an overview of the articles in the special issue, and suggests a research agenda for DEA and SFA. © The Author(s) 2011. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14446 10.1177/1077558710384878 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Mutter, R. Rosko, M. Greene, William Wilson, P. Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency |
| title | Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency |
| title_full | Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency |
| title_fullStr | Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency |
| title_full_unstemmed | Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency |
| title_short | Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency |
| title_sort | translating frontiers into practice: taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14446 |