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Measuring efficiency in health care : = analytic techniques and health policy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Measuring efficiency in health care :/ Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street.
Reminder of title:	analytic techniques and health policy /
Author:	Jacobs, Rowena,
other author:	Smith, Peter
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Medical care - Standards - Great Britain. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617492
ISBN:	9780511617492 (ebook)

Measuring efficiency in health care : = analytic techniques and health policy /
Jacobs, Rowena,

Measuring efficiency in health care :analytic techniques and health policy /Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street. - 1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

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

Efficiency in health care --1.

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.

ISBN: 9780511617492 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Medical care
--Standards--Great Britain.

LC Class. No.: RA399.G7 / J33 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 362.10680941

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