Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- 1 Overview of Performance Analytics for Healthcare with Examples in R
- 2 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Healthcare: From Theory to Practice to Problems and Solutions
- 3 Capabilities, QALYs, and COVID
- 4 The Economic Efficiency of Policies to Reduce Ill Health Involving Environmental Factors
- 5 Health in the National Accounts
- 6 Healthcare as Social Infrastructure: Productivity and the UK National Health Service During and After COVID-19
- 7 Health, Human Capital, and Its Contribution to Economic Growth
- 8 What Do We Know from the Vast Literature on Efficiency and Productivity in Healthcare? A Review and Bibliometric Analysis
- 9 Brief Overview of Production Theory for Analyzing Healthcare Performance
- 10 Modeling Production of Well-Being from an Intermediate Medical Intervention: With an Empirical Demonstration
- 11 Data Envelopment Analysis Applications and US Hospital Policy
- 12 New Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Healthcare Providers Using DEA and FDH Estimators
- 13 Stochastic Frontier Analysis for Healthcare, with Illustrations in R
- 14 A Review of US Stochastic Frontier Studies of Hospital Efficiency Published After 2008
- 15 Nonparametric Journey through Conditional Frontier Models
- 16 Measuring Health and Healthcare Efficiency: Revised Guidelines for Measurement
- 17 A Brief Introduction to Causal Inference in Healthcare
- 18 Dynamic Assignment of Patients to Primary and Secondary Inpatient Units: Is Patience a Virtue?
- Index
11 - Data Envelopment Analysis Applications and US Hospital Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- 1 Overview of Performance Analytics for Healthcare with Examples in R
- 2 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Healthcare: From Theory to Practice to Problems and Solutions
- 3 Capabilities, QALYs, and COVID
- 4 The Economic Efficiency of Policies to Reduce Ill Health Involving Environmental Factors
- 5 Health in the National Accounts
- 6 Healthcare as Social Infrastructure: Productivity and the UK National Health Service During and After COVID-19
- 7 Health, Human Capital, and Its Contribution to Economic Growth
- 8 What Do We Know from the Vast Literature on Efficiency and Productivity in Healthcare? A Review and Bibliometric Analysis
- 9 Brief Overview of Production Theory for Analyzing Healthcare Performance
- 10 Modeling Production of Well-Being from an Intermediate Medical Intervention: With an Empirical Demonstration
- 11 Data Envelopment Analysis Applications and US Hospital Policy
- 12 New Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Healthcare Providers Using DEA and FDH Estimators
- 13 Stochastic Frontier Analysis for Healthcare, with Illustrations in R
- 14 A Review of US Stochastic Frontier Studies of Hospital Efficiency Published After 2008
- 15 Nonparametric Journey through Conditional Frontier Models
- 16 Measuring Health and Healthcare Efficiency: Revised Guidelines for Measurement
- 17 A Brief Introduction to Causal Inference in Healthcare
- 18 Dynamic Assignment of Patients to Primary and Secondary Inpatient Units: Is Patience a Virtue?
- Index
Summary
Following the introduction of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in the operations research literature and its revival in the economics literature, for more than 40 years numerous studies have examined hospital efficiency, implementing the various advances in modeling efficiency and productivity. Many of these studies addressed the issues facing governments, hospitals, and patients. Three main concerns of these stakeholders are the cost of, quality of, and access to hospital care. This chapter focuses on research that used DEA to examine cost, quality, and access and the government policies that have been enacted to address these three concerns. Rather than a comprehensive literature review, the chapter discusses selected works that address relevant policy issues.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of HealthcareProductivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness, pp. 306 - 350Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024