Efficiency of the medical care industry: Evidence from the Italian regional system

• Published in: European journal of operational research Vol. 217; no. 3; pp. 643 - 652
• Main Authors: Ippoliti, Roberto, Falavigna, Greta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 16.03.2012; Elsevier; Elsevier Sequoia S.A
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Biological and medical sciences; Data Envelopment Analysis; Economy. Management; Efficiency; Exact sciences and technology; Externalities; Firm modelling; Health and social institutions; Health care industry; Human; Markets; Mathematical programming; Mathematics; Medical; Medical research; Medical researcher; Medical sciences; Nonparametric inference; Operational research; Operational research and scientific management; Operational research. Management science; Operations research; OR in health services; Patients; Perception; Pharmaceutical clinical research; Probability and statistics; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Regional analysis; Research subjects; Sciences and techniques of general use; Statistics; Studies; Suppliers; Vendor supplier relations; Italy; Research subjects; Medical researcher; Regional analysis; OR in health services; Data Envelopment Analysis; Pharmaceutical clinical research; Human; Competitiveness; Hospital management; Mobility; Non parametric method; Non parametric estimation; Markets; Experimental study; Externality; Efficiency; Regional system; Perception; Pharmaceutical industry; Medical application; Public health; Data envelopment analysis

► Patients’ perception of good quality of outputs supplied by the medical care industry. ► Efficiency as the supplier’s ability to maximize the number of patients. ► Positive externality of pharmaceutical clinical research on that kind of efficiency. What might be the relation between clinical resea...