Evaluating physician efficiency in hospitals: A multivariate analysis of best practices

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 548-574

  Chilingerian, Jon A ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best practice; Clinical efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Frontier analysis; Health applications; Physician behavior; Physician profile; Physician report cards

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE;

BEST PRACTICE; CLINICAL EFFICIENCY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; FRONTIER ANALYSIS; HEALTH APPLICATIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN BEHAVIOR; PHYSICIAN EFFICIENCY; PHYSICIAN PROFILE; PHYSICIAN REPORT CARDS;

PERSONNEL RATING;

EID: 0029632420     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-2217(94)00137-2     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. The need for a national focus on health care productivity
2. Estimating most productive scale size using Data Envelopment Analysis
3. Estimation of returns to scale using Data Envelopment Analysis
4. Models for estimating technical and scale efficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis
5. A Comparative Application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Translog Methods: An Illustrative Study of Hospital Production
6. Utilization of hospital services: The role of teaching, case mix, and reimbursement
7. The impact of reading a clinical study on treatment decisions of physicians and residents
8. Physician decision making limited by medical evidence
9. MEDISGRPS: A clinically based approach to classifying hospital patients at admission
10. Why do physicians in NeoNatal care units differ in their admission threshold?
11. Measuring the efficiency of decision-making units
12. Foundations of Data Envelopment Analysis for Pareto-Koopmans efficient empirical production functions
13. Non-medical factors influencing use of diagnostic X-ray by physicians
14. Investigating non-medical factors associated with the technical efficiency of physicians in the provision of hospital services: A pilot study
15. Managing physician efficiency and effectiveness in providing hospital services
16. Processing of critical information by physicians and medical students
17. Use of diagnostic services by physicians in community practice
18. Provider behavior under prospective reimbursement
19. A Theory of Extramarital Affairs
20. The Measurement of Productive Efficiency
21. Child health care in the United States
22. Differences between faculty and community services in a university hospital
23. An application procedure for DEA
24. OPENING REMARKS
25. Financial incentives for physicians in HMOs
26. Diagnostic test use in different practice settings: A controlled comparison
27. Hospital case mix: Its definition, measurement and use
28. A branch of economics is missing: Micro-micro theory
29. Empirical estimation and partitioning of X-inefficiency: A Data-Envelopment Approach
30. The Doctor's Master
31. Assessing the Evidence on HMO Performance
32. Utilization of within-hospital services: A study of the effects of two forms of group practice
33. Group practice affiliation and interphysician consulting patterns within a community general hospital
34. Altering medical resource utilization: The economic ironies of charges and costs in teaching hospitals
35. Are fee-for-service costs increasing faster than HMO costs?
36. A comparison of internists and family-general practitioners
37. Social policy and professional self-interest: Physician responses to DRGs
38. The effect of medical training factors on physician utilization behavior
39. Influence of client/colleague dependence on physician performance in patient care
40. Incidence for an informal clinical policy resulting in use of a very low yield test
41. Measuring outputs in hospitals
42. Use of laboratory test and pharmaceuticals: Variations among physicians and effect of cost audit on subsequent use
43. Recent developments in DEA
44. The diagnostic process in primary care: A comparison of general internists and family physicians
45. The role of the multiplier bounds in efficiency analysis with application to Kansas farming
46. Importance for DEA of zeros in data, multipliers and solutions
47. Medicine versus Economics
48. Variations in medical care among small areas
49. Estimating the Economic Model of Crime with Individual Data
50. A comparison of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in HMO and fee-for-service practices