Efficiency in chronic illness care coordination: public-private collaboration models vs. traditional management.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this paper is to analyze the differences in the coordination of chronic illness care between the different public hospital management models coexisting in the Spanish region of Madrid (25 hospitals) during the period 2013-2017.

Methods

The performance of hospitals might be affected by the characteristics of the population they serve and, therefore, this information should be taken into account when estimating efficiency measures. For this purpose, we apply the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) conditioned to some contextual variables and adapted to a dynamic framework, so that we can assess hospitals during a five-year period. The outputs considered are preventable hospitalizations, readmissions for heart failure and readmissions for chronic

SUBMITTER: Franco Miguel JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7667775 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature