What do we know from the vast literature on efficiency and productivity in healthcare? A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Kok Fong See, Shawna Grosskopf, Vivian Valdmanis and Valentin Zelenyuk
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Vivian Valdmanis: Western Michigan University, United States

No WP072021, CEPA Working Papers Series from University of Queensland, School of Economics

Abstract: Not only does healthcare play a key role in a country’s economy, but it is also one of the fastest-growing sectors for most countries, resulting in rising expenditures. In turn, efficiency and productivity analyses of the healthcare industry have attracted attention from a wide variety of interested parties, including academics, hospital administrators, and policy makers. As a result, a very large number of studies of efficiency and productivity in the healthcare industry have appeared over the past three decades in a variety of outlets. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive and systematic review of these studies with the aid of modern machine technology learning methods for bibliometric analysis. This approach facilitated our identification and analysis and allowed us to reveal patterns and clusters in the data from 477 efficiency and productivity articles associated with the healthcare industry from 1983 to 2019, produced by nearly 1000 authors and published in a multitude of academic journals. Leveraging on such ‘biblioanalytics’, combined with our own understanding of the field, we then highlight the trends and possible future of efficiency and productivity studies in healthcare.

Date: 2021-05
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