Efficiency of U.S. dialysis centers: an updated examination of facility characteristics that influence production of dialysis treatments.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the relative efficiency of dialysis facilities in the United States and identify factors that are associated with efficiency in the production of dialysis treatments.

Data sources/study setting

Medicare cost report data from 4,343 free-standing dialysis facilities in the United States that offered in-center hemodialysis in 2010.

Study design

A cross-sectional, facility-level retrospective database analysis, utilizing data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate facility efficiency.

Data collection/extraction methods

Treatment data and cost and labor inputs of dialysis treatments were obtained from 2010 Medicare Renal Cost Reports. Demographic data were obtained from the 2010 U.S. Census.

Principal findings

Only 26.6 percent of facilit

SUBMITTER: Shreay S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4231574 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature