Arbeitspapier
Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional efficiency approach
The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables. Effects of environmental variables are assessed using the non-parametric significance test and partial regression plots. We find not-for-profit ownership and a presence of a specialized center in a hospital to be detrimental to hospital performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals. Generally, hospital performance gets worse in period 2009-2010 because additional revenues received in form of user charges which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as a reaction to financial crisis.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IES Working Paper ; No. 31/2014
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Analysis of Health Care Markets
- Thema
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efficiency
hospitals
conditional order-m FDH
Czech Republic
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Šťastná Lenka
Votápková, Jana
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)
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Prague
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Šťastná Lenka
- Votápková, Jana
- Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)
Entstanden
- 2014