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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany
Contributor:
Tiemann, Oliver;
Schreyögg, Jonas
imprint:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009
Published in:Business Research
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/bf03342707
ISSN:
2198-2627;
2198-3402
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals between 2002 and 2006. This was followed by a second-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public hospitals performed significantly better than their private for-profit and non-profit counterparts. In addition, we found a significant positive association between hospital size and efficiency, and that competitive pressure had a significant negative impact on hospital efficiency.</jats:p>