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Managed care and technical efficiency
Health Economics, 2002AbstractBy focusing exclusively on consumer benefit, previous studies of the effects of managed care have ignored important hospital efficiency gains. This study uses the HCUP sample of hospitals for 1992–1996 to estimate a stochastic frontier model of hospital technical efficiency.
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Nonlinear measures of technical efficiency
Computers & Operations Research, 1989The data envelopment analysis for measuring efficiency of decision-making units is generalized here to include nonlinearities, which in suitable cases outperform the linear efficiency measures in terms of explanatory power and goodness of fit.
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF GRAIN PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE [PDF]
, 1998 A stochastic grain production frontier model is estimated on a representative sample of Ukrainian state farms. Technical inefficiency effects are modeled as a function of workforce composition, other farm-specific variables, and time. Technical inefficiency increased over time.
Kurkalova, Lyubov, Jensen, Helen
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2016
Dynamic panels with non-Gaussian errors suffer from the incidental parameter bias. Simulations show that an indirect inference estimation approach provides bias correction for the model and distribution parameters. The indirect confidence set inference method is size correct and exhibits good coverage properties even for asymmetric confidence regions ...
Lynda Khalaf, Charles J. Saunders
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Dynamic panels with non-Gaussian errors suffer from the incidental parameter bias. Simulations show that an indirect inference estimation approach provides bias correction for the model and distribution parameters. The indirect confidence set inference method is size correct and exhibits good coverage properties even for asymmetric confidence regions ...
Lynda Khalaf, Charles J. Saunders
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Veblen and Technical Efficiency
Journal of Economic Issues, 1997It is well known that Thorstein Veblen accused the turn-of-the-century captains of industry of sabotage. What is not so well known is that, for Veblen, sabotage was not simply a pejorative term. By sabotage, he meant a "conscientious withdrawal of efficiency" [Veblen 1990a, 38].
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Technical efficiency of high technology medicine
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1989Intensive care units (ICUs) are classic examples of high technology medicine. The ICU has become an essential step in the clinical management of patients passing through a phase of critical illness, However, the costs are extremely h9gh (1% of GNP in the USA), whereas it has not ben adeqyately demonstrated that routine admission to intensive care is ...
J. F. A. Spangenberg +8 more
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Efficiency of trucks in logistics: technical efficiency and scale efficiency
Asian Journal on Quality, 2010PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose a scheme to estimate the technical efficiency of trucks engaged in logistics and to analyze the properties of efficiency. The objectives are to determine individual‐truck level technical efficiency using both radial and non‐radial measures for freight trucks, to calculate the degree of input overuse.Design/
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Technical efficiency of production in agricultural research
Scientometrics, 1999We define and model research production at Embrapa, the major Brazilian institution responsible for applied agricultural research. The main theoretical framework used is Data Envelopment Analysis — DEA. The economic interpretation of these models is explored to assess scale, congestion and cost efficiencies.
Geraldo da Silva e Souza +2 more
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Measuring the technical efficiency of psychiatric hospitals
Journal of Medical Systems, 1996The purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency of psychiatric hospitals. Data Envelopment Analysis was used to examine the technical efficiency for sample of the 85 profit and not-for-profit psychiatric hospitals. Results suggests reduction of excessive resource use by all inefficient facilities would result, on average, in a $7.2 million ...
Y A, Ozcan, M J, McCue, A A, Okasha
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Technical Efficiency of Italian Public Hospitals [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Since the late eighties the Italian National Health System, in particular hospital care, has undergone deep reforms. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital system at a regional level.
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