Efficiency in the Treatment of Hip Fractures

Magnus Tambour () and Niklas Zethraeus ()
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Magnus Tambour: Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: P.O. Box 6501, S-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden
Niklas Zethraeus: Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: P.O. Box 6501, S-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden

No 246, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: This study addresses the issue of efficiency in the treatment and rehabilitation of hip fracture patients in Sweden. The treatment and rehabilitation of hip fracture patients is defined in terms of a hip fracture treatment process where resources in orthopaedics and after care are used for "producing" operated patients with a given survival and residence the year after fracture. Each hip fracture treatment process is evaluated in terms of technical and allocative efficiency, using data envelopment analysis (DEA) which is a non-parametric linear programming technique. This method enables identification of inefficient processes and measurement of potential cost savings. It is shown that the annual potential cost savings for the Stockholm area amount to about 40 million SEK assuming overall efficiency which represents about 11 percent of the total costs related to the hip fracture treatment process.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; efficiency; hip fractures; potential cost savings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D61 I10 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 1998-06-22
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