Hospital quality, efficiency, and input slack differentials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To use an advance in data envelopment analysis (DEA) called congestion analysis to assess the trade-offs between quality and efficiency in U.S. hospitals.

Study setting

Urban U.S. hospitals in 34 states operating in 2004.

Study design and data collection

Input and output data from 1,377 urban hospitals were taken from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey and the Medicare Cost Reports. Nurse-sensitive measures of quality came from the application of the Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) module of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicator software to State Inpatient Databases (SID) provided by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).

Data analysis

In the first step of the study, hospitals' relative output

SUBMITTER: Valdmanis VG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2654161 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature