Efficiency and the quality of management and care: evidence from Japanese public hospitals

Toshiki Kodera and Koji Yoneda

Applied Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 26, issue 17, 1418-1423

Abstract: We study how the quality of hospital management and medical care both affect efficiency in Japanese local public hospitals. The efficiency is estimated by a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and is regressed against the quality scores in hospital accreditation by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (JCQHC). We find that rule-based hospital management relates to high efficiency, while the suitable management of beds and supplies relates to low efficiency.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1564112

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