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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IES Working Paper ; No. 31/2014

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Thema
efficiency
hospitals
conditional order-m FDH
Czech Republic

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Šťastná Lenka
Votápková, Jana
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)
(wo)
Prague
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Šťastná Lenka
  • Votápková, Jana
  • Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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