Returns to Scale Models

Yasar A. Ozcan
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Yasar A. Ozcan: Virginia Commonwealth University

Chapter Chapter 3 in Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation, 2014, pp 49-64 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Health care managers can seek alternative evaluations to assess which components of their organization are contributing to the inefficiency of their organization, such as the size of their operation, poor organizational factors, flow processes, or other related factors. For example, a small hospital, in certain instances, may appear less efficient compared to larger ones, and this may be due to its scale size. On the other hand, the reverse can be seen as well, due to diseconomies of scale, which occur when larger hospitals may be operating inefficiently due to other reasons, such as poor management or a lack of strategic focus.

Keywords: Health Care Management; Efficiency Scores; Pure Technical Efficiency; Inefficient Hospitals; Output Augmentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7472-3_3

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