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UNINA9910457576303321 |
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Jacobs Rowena |
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Measuring efficiency in health care : analytic techniques and health policy / / Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006 |
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1-107-71387-0 |
1-280-48037-8 |
9786610480371 |
0-511-22079-0 |
0-511-22115-0 |
0-511-21918-0 |
0-511-31715-8 |
0-511-61749-6 |
0-511-21986-5 |
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1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Medical care - Standards - Great Britain |
Medical care - Great Britain - Evaluation |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231) and indexes. |
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; 1. Efficiency in health care -- ; 2. The components of an efficiency model -- ; 3. Stochastic frontier analysis of cross-sectional data -- ; 4. Stochastic frontier analysis of panel data -- ; 5. Data envelopment analysis -- ; 6. The Malmquist index -- ; 7. A comparison of SFA and DEA -- ; 8. Unresolved issues and challenges in efficiency measurement -- ; 9. Some alternative approaches to measuring performance -- ; 10. Conclusions. |
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With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least due to the multiple objectives of health care organizations and the |
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many gaps in information systems. In response to this complexity, research in organizational efficiency analysis has flourished. This 2006 book examines some of the most important techniques currently available to measure the efficiency of systems and organizations, including data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis, and also presents some promising new methodological approaches. Such techniques offer the prospect of many new and fruitful insights into health care performance. Nevertheless, they also pose many practical and methodological challenges. This is an important critical assessment of the strengths and limitations of efficiency analysis applied to health and health care. |
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UNINA9910136267203321 |
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IEEE Std 380-1975 (Revision of IEEE Std 380-1972) : IEEE definitions of terms used in IEEE standards on nuclear power generating stations / / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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Piscataway, New Jersey : , : IEEE, , 1975 |
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1 online resource (16 pages) |
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All of the terms and definitions in this document have been taken from current IEEE standards on nuclear power generating stations. The source of each definition is indicated by a number in brackets immediately following the definition in Section 1, and full listings of each standard follow in Section 2. As defined herein, the terms are restricted to the manner in which they have been employed in mentioned standards, and the definitions may not, in all cases, be applicable for broader usage. However, because the IEEE standards on nuclear power generating stations have had wide acceptance within |
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both government and industry, the terms, as used in these documents, have come into broad usage by many persons who neither need the standards nor have ready access to them. Since these terms are not included in American National Standard Glossary of Terms in Nuclear Science and Technology, Nl.1-1967, the present document has been published as a convenient method of supplementing that standard. |
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