Assessing overall, technical, and scale ...
Type de document :
Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage
Titre :
Assessing overall, technical, and scale efficiency among home health care agencies
Auteur(s) :
Valdmanis, Vivian G. [Auteur]
Rosko, Michael D. [Auteur]
Leleu, Herve [Auteur]
Université Catholique de Lille - Faculté de gestion, économie et sciences [UCL FGES]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Mukamel, Dana B. [Auteur]
Rosko, Michael D. [Auteur]
Leleu, Herve [Auteur]
Université Catholique de Lille - Faculté de gestion, économie et sciences [UCL FGES]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Mukamel, Dana B. [Auteur]
Titre de la revue :
Health Care Management Science
Pagination :
265--275
Éditeur :
Springer Verlag
Date de publication :
2016-01
ISSN :
1386-9620
Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :
Home health agencies
Efficiency
Data envelopment analysis
Efficiency
Data envelopment analysis
Discipline(s) HAL :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
Résumé en anglais : [en]
While home health care agencies (HHAs) play a vital role in the production of health, little research has been performed gauging their efficiency. Employing a robust approach to data envelopment analysis (DEA) we assessed ...
Lire la suite >While home health care agencies (HHAs) play a vital role in the production of health, little research has been performed gauging their efficiency. Employing a robust approach to data envelopment analysis (DEA) we assessed overall, technical, and scale efficiency on a nationwide sample of HHAs. After deriving the three efficiency measures, we regressed these scores on a variety of environmental factors. We found that HHAs, on average, could proportionally reduce inputs by 28 % (overall efficiency), 23 % (technical efficiency) and 6 % (scale efficiency). For-profit ownership was positively associated with improvements in overall efficiency and technical efficiency and chain ownership was positively associated with global efficiency. There were also state-by-state variations on all the efficiency measures. As home health becomes an increasingly important player in the health care system, and its share of national health expenditures increases, it has become important to understand the cost structure of the industry and the potential for efficiencies. Therefore, further research is recommended as this sector continues to grow.Lire moins >
Lire la suite >While home health care agencies (HHAs) play a vital role in the production of health, little research has been performed gauging their efficiency. Employing a robust approach to data envelopment analysis (DEA) we assessed overall, technical, and scale efficiency on a nationwide sample of HHAs. After deriving the three efficiency measures, we regressed these scores on a variety of environmental factors. We found that HHAs, on average, could proportionally reduce inputs by 28 % (overall efficiency), 23 % (technical efficiency) and 6 % (scale efficiency). For-profit ownership was positively associated with improvements in overall efficiency and technical efficiency and chain ownership was positively associated with global efficiency. There were also state-by-state variations on all the efficiency measures. As home health becomes an increasingly important player in the health care system, and its share of national health expenditures increases, it has become important to understand the cost structure of the industry and the potential for efficiencies. Therefore, further research is recommended as this sector continues to grow.Lire moins >
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Anglais
Vulgarisation :
Non
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