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Returns to Scale Models

In: Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation

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  • Yasar A. Ozcan

    (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Abstract

Health care managers can seek alternative evaluations to assess which components of their organization are contributing to the inefficiency of their organization, such as the size of their operation, poor organizational factors, flow processes, or other related factors. For example, a small hospital, in certain instances, may appear less efficient compared to larger ones, and this may be due to its scale size. On the other hand, the reverse can be seen as well, due to diseconomies of scale, which occur when larger hospitals may be operating inefficiently due to other reasons, such as poor management or a lack of strategic focus.

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  • Yasar A. Ozcan, 2014. "Returns to Scale Models," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 49-64, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-1-4899-7472-3_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7472-3_3
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