Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic Conditional efficiency approach

This paper estimates the cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006–2010. We employ the conditional order-m approach to assess how inpatient costs in a hospital translate to inpatient outputs considering its environmental characteristics. The outputs include quantitati...

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Published inJournal of productivity analysis Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 73 - 89
Main Authors Mastromarco, Camilla, Stastna, Lenka, Votapkova, Jana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer Science + Business Media 01.02.2019
Springer US
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Accounting/Auditing
Cost analysis
Econometrics
Economics
Economics and Finance
Efficiency
Hospitals
Microeconomics
Nonprofit hospitals
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Czech Republic
Conditional order-m
Czech Republic
Hospitals
Efficiency
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Summary:This paper estimates the cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006–2010. We employ the conditional order-m approach to assess how inpatient costs in a hospital translate to inpatient outputs considering its environmental characteristics. The outputs include quantitative indicators such as (i) acute patients adjusted for DRG casemix index, (ii) nursing patients, and (iii) publications reflecting research activity of a hospital; but also a qualitative indicator (iv) nurses/bed ratio. Nonprofit hospitals, university hospitals, and hospitals with specialized centers are generally less efficient.
ISSN:0895-562X
1573-0441
DOI:10.1007/s11123-019-00543-y