Performance Analysis of Hospitals in Australia and its Peers: A Systematic Review

Zhichao Wang and Valentin Zelenyuk
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Zhichao Wang: School of Economics and Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (CEPA) at The University of Queensland, Australia

No WP012021, CEPA Working Papers Series from University of Queensland, School of Economics

Abstract: Research about the productivity and efficiency of hospitals in providing healthcare services has developed substantially in the last few decades. How does this topic proceed in Australia, its peer countries and regions who share a similar healthcare system? In this article, we conduct a systematic review and a series of bibliometric analyses of the research about the efficiency of hospitals, which are the core organizations in the the healthcare system, in order to obtain a broad perspective of this topic in Australia and its peers. Among others, a random forests model was trained to evaluate the impact of features of an article on the scientific influence of the research. We used bibliometric data in Scopus from 1970 to 2020 and extracted the review pool by a peer-review process. Besides identifying the productive authors and most cited publication sources, the bibliometric analysis also indicated a shifting of topics over time. Through the training process of the random forests classification model, the most influential features of an article were also identified.

Keywords: Performance analysis; efficiency; Australia; hospital; systematic review; bibliometric analysis; random forests; machine learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C61 D24 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-01
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