IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/eme/aheszz/s0731-2199(07)00013-1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Chapter 13 Efficiency in Hospital Industry: Summary and Conclusions

In: Evaluating Hospital Policy and Performance: Contributions from Hospital Policy and Productivity Research

Author

Listed:
  • Jos L.T. Blank
  • Vivian G. Valdmanis

Abstract

It is well recognized that hospitals do not operate in a competitive market typically observed in the economics literature, but rather alternative measures of performance must be developed. In other words, health policy analysts, managers, and decision-makers cannot rely on determining efficiency via the typical profit maximizing/cost minimizing firm but develop techniques that address the issues germane to hospital productivity. What has been presented in this book demonstrates the research in both productivity and policy that must attend to this anomaly. In this introductory section, we briefly summarize the theoretical underpinnings of this book.

Suggested Citation

  • Jos L.T. Blank & Vivian G. Valdmanis, 2007. "Chapter 13 Efficiency in Hospital Industry: Summary and Conclusions," Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, in: Evaluating Hospital Policy and Performance: Contributions from Hospital Policy and Productivity Research, pages 231-240, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:aheszz:s0731-2199(07)00013-1
    DOI: 10.1016/S0731-2199(07)00013-1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1016/S0731-2199(07)00013-1/full/html?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1016/S0731-2199(07)00013-1/full/pdf?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/S0731-2199(07)00013-1?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eme:aheszz:s0731-2199(07)00013-1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Emerald Support (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.