Financing reform and productivity change in Brazilian teaching hospitals: Malmquist approach
Maria Castro Lobo (clobo@hucff.ufrj.br),
Yasar Ozcan (ozcan@vcu.edu),
Angela Silva,
Marcos Lins and
Roberto Fiszman
Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2010, vol. 18, issue 2, 152 pages
Abstract:
This study evaluates the performance and productivity changes for the Brazilian Federal University Hospitals, considering the years of 2003 and 2006, that is, before and after a 2004 financing reform. The analysis is based on the Malmquist index approach. Results indicate that the financing reform provided improvement in the technical efficiency, although the technological frontier has not presented a positive shift. This suggests that increased budgets were a good stimulus for efficiency but the intended enhancement of the technology through the financing reform has not yet taken place. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2010
Keywords: Efficiency; Malmquist index; Brazilian hospital performance; Healthcare reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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