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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany
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The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals between 2002 and 2006. This was followed by a second-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public hospitals performed significantly better than their private for-profit and non-profit counterparts. In addition, we found a significant positive association between hospital size and efficiency, and that competitive pressure had a significant negative impact on hospital efficiency.
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Tiemann O, Schreyögg J (2009). Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany. BuR - Business Research, Vol. 2. (urn:nbn:de:0009-20-21700)
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