Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith, Andrew Street

Measuring Efficiency in Health Care

Analytic Techniques and Health Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

The pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. This book examines the relevance of two analytic techniques widely advocated as means of measuring the comparative efficiency of health care organizations - data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. These techniques have been deployed in countless health care settings, but contain many methodological pitfalls. This book leads the reader through the basic elements of the methods, and offers a critical assessment of their strengths and limitations when deployed in practical health care applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780521851442
• ISBN-10: 0521851440
• Artikelnr.: 21965163

Autorenporträt

Rowena Jacobs is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Efficiency in health care
2. The components of an efficiency model
3. Stochastic frontier analysis of cross-sectional data
4. Stochastic frontier analysis of panel data
5. Data envelopment analysis
6. The Malmquist Index
7. A comparison of SFA and DEA
8. Unresolved issues and challenges in efficiency measurement
9. Some alternative approaches to measuring performance
10. Conclusions
Appendix
References
Author index
Subject index
Acronyms.