Productivity and quality changes in Greek public hospitals

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作者：
Roxani Karagiannis
Kostas Velentzas
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[1] Centre for Planning and Economic Research (KEPE),Department of Economic Studies
[2] University of Macedonia,undefined
[3] 72 Evzonon str.,undefined
来源：
Operational Research | 2012年 / 12卷
关键词：
Productivity; Efficiency; Quality; DEA; Hospitals; Greece; D24; I10;
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The objective of this paper is to estimate productivity changes after the inclusion of quality variables for a panel of Greek public hospitals during the period 2002–2007. We measure hospital productivity and quality changes through a non-parametric estimation of the quality adjusted Malmquist productivity index by using the percentage of survival after admissions as a proxy of hospital care services quality. Even though the empirical results indicate on average deterioration both in productivity and quality there is considerable variation among the sample hospitals.
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