Economies of scale and scope in the Danish hospital sector prior to radical restructuring plans

Troels Kristensen, Kim Rose Olsen, Jannie Kilsmark, Jørgen Lauridsen and Kjeld Møller Pedersen

Health Policy, 2012, vol. 106, issue 2, 120-126

Abstract: The Danish hospital sector faces a significant rebuilding program driven by recent regional reform and guidelines for acute admission hospitals. Within the next 5–10 years, the number of public hospitals offering acute admission will be reduced from 35 to approximately 20 larger hospitals. As the administrative data may be biased during the middle of a restructuring process our objective was to analyze whether the configuration of Danish public hospitals was subject to economies of scale and scope prior to the restructuring plans.

Keywords: Economies of scale; Economies of scope; Hospitals; Cost function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 D24 H42 I11 I12 L38 L44 L52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.04.001

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