Hospital Inefficiency: What is the Impact of Membership in Different Types of Systems?
The primary objective of this study is to assess whether systematic differences in inefficiency are associated with hospital membership in different types of systems. We employed the Battese/Coelli simultaneous stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) technique to estimate hospital cost inefficiency. Mean...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2007-08-01
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| Series: | Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_44.3.335 |