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Technical Efficiency in Nursing Homes
Medical Care, 1990technical efficiency. A technically inefficient firm is one that uses more inputs than another firm to produce the same amount of output. The ranking of firms by technical efficiency, however, is limited by the explicit recognition of substitutability among inputs. For example, consider firms A, B, and C.
J A, Nyman, D L, Bricker, D, Link
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Effect of surgeon experience on technical efficiency
Health Services Management Research, 2022Surgeon experience certainly improves their technical efficiency although it also causes physiological changes with aging. The authors hypothesized that surgeons’ technical efficiency improves with increasing experience up to a point where it then decreases, which is a concave relationship.
Yoshinori Nakata +2 more
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Customs union and technical efficiency
De Economist, 1982Customs unions are frequently suggested to have a salutary effect upon the efficiency of production. However, this is not part of received customs union theory. It is shown that the essence of the competitive ‘cold shower’ is very difficult to accommodate in standard theory, given its underlying theory of intrafirm behaviour, the assumed nature of ...
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Ownership and Technical Efficiency of Hospitals
Medical Care, 1990The findings in this paper revealed the sample public hospitals to be more efficient relative to the sample NFP hospitals. Tight governmental control over the resources allocated to public hospitals may be one reason why these hospitals appear more efficient.
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Technical Efficiency in Agriculture
2020Resource limitations in the agricultural sector for achieving food production is one of the most critical challenges for planners and policymakers in many countries including Iran. Optimal use of available resources is one of the ways to overcome these limitations.
Mohammad Ghorbani +3 more
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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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Fuzzy scores of technical efficiency
European Journal of Operational Research, 1999zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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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 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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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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