The measurement of relative efficiency of general practice and the implications for policy makers

Ferruccio Pelone, Dionne Sofia Kringos, Luca Valerio, Alessandro Romaniello, Agnese Lazzari, Walter Ricciardi and Antonio Giulio de Belvis

Health Policy, 2012, vol. 107, issue 2, 258-268

Abstract: This study aimed to compare technical efficiency of general practice (GP) delivered by the twenty Regions of Italy's decentralized healthcare system and to determine if it was affected by contextual factors.

Keywords: Primary health care; General practice; Technical efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis; Health Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.05.005

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