Record Nr.

UNINA9910784338003321

Autore

Jacobs Rowena

Titolo

Measuring efficiency in health care : analytic techniques and health policy / / Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006

ISBN


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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

362.10680941

Soggetti

Medical care - Standards - Great Britain

Medical care - Great Britain - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

; 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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

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.