Technical Efficiency in the Dialysis Industry

ISBN-13: 9783639172034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 156 str.

Hacer Ozgen

Opis

Government cost containment policies, in particular,fixed price reimbursement, has substantial influenceon the nature of market structure of the dialysisindustry and the ways dialysis facilities respond tothose policies as well as the facility performance ofefficiency. There exist however lack of informationon the relationships between the degree of marketcompetition, facility characteristics reflectingdifferential behavior in achieving efficiency andtechnical efficiency in producing dialysis treatmentsin a non-price competitive market. This bookaddresses the question "how do market structure andfacility conduct of dialysis providers relate to thetechnical efficiency in producing multiple dialysisoutputs?" To do so, unlike previous research, aconceptual framework is drawn from the perspective ofindustrial organization theory and analyzed using thetechniques of Data Envelopment Analysis andregression. Information provided in this book shouldacquire an interest especially by health servicesresearchers and practitioners who are involved in thedialysis industry and efficiency measurement, andalso students studying performance measurement in thehealth care sector.

O autorze

Hacer Ozgen, Ph.D.: Serving as an associate professor at
Hacettepe University, Turkey, with Ph.D. in Health Services
Organization and Research, Virginia Commonwealth University,
USA. Published in, among others, Health Affairs, Health Services
Research, and Social Science and Medicine.