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2013
- handle: 10670/1.0q03rc
- hal: hal-01052726
- doi: 10.1007/s11293-013-9385-z
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Hospital efficiency Economies of scope Focus efficiency Free coordination hull (FCH) D - Microeconomics/D.D2 - Production and Organizations/D.D2.D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I0 - General/I.I0.I00 - GeneralSujets proches
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G. Ferrier et al., « The focus efficiency of U.S. Hospitals », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1007/s11293-013-9385-z
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Hospital productivity has been a research topic for over two decades. Whereas much has been learned regarding cost, technical, scale, and allocative efficiency as well as the impact that weakly disposable inputs/outputs have on hospital behavior, we expand on this research by examining size and service offering, or focus, efficiency at the metropolitan area level for US hospitals. By using an extension of the Free Coordination Hull (FCH), we are able to determine whether hospitals in our sample could become more efficient if they provided more services (reduce inefficiency due to too narrow a focus) or fewer services (reduce inefficiency due to too broad a focus). Our results suggest that findings vary among the hospital markets. This approach could be used by policy makers and managers in order to reduce costs by sharing services, reducing services in hospitals, or expanding services in hospitals. Findings from a study such as this should aid reform programs by providing more information on the sources of hospital inefficiency.