Public and Private Hospitals: Multivariate Analysis
Supplement to Research Report
The Commission has prepared a supplement to its December 2009 report Public and Private Hospitals. The supplement was released on 18 May 2010.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 147 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Abbreviations and explanations, and Glossary - Overview - including key points (PDF - 143 Kb)
- Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 48 Kb)
1.1 What is this study about?
1.2 Structure of study
1.3 Conduct of the study - Chapter 2 The Commission's approach (PDF - 134 Kb)
2.1 Measuring hospital effectiveness and quality
2.2 Concepts of hospital efficiency
2.3 Techniques for estimating hospital efficiency
2.4 Other modelling issues - Chapter 3 Data used in this analysis (PDF - 265 Kb)
3.1 The Commission's dataset
3.2 Variables used in this study
3.3 Profile of hospitals in the sample - Chapter 4 Hospital mortality (PDF - 122 Kb)
4.1 Hospital-standardised mortality ratios
4.2 Factors affecting hospital mortality
4.3 Risk adjusting hospital mortality rates
4.4 Comparing HSMRs across public and private hospitals
4.5 Improving HSMRs as a measure of hospital quality - Chapter 5 Technical efficiency (PDF - 153 Kb)
5.1 Summary of Commission's approach
5.2 Estimation results
5.3 Technical efficiency scores - Chapter 6 A preliminary analysis of hospital costs (PDF - 115 Kb)
6.1 Summary of the Commission's approach
6.2 Estimation results
6.3 Preliminary cost efficiency scores
6.4 Scope to improve future efficiency measurement - Appendix A Workshop participants (PDF - 47 Kb)
- Appendix B Literature review (PDF - 116 Kb)
- Appendix C Theoretical framework (PDF - 120 Kb)
- Appendix D Additional results (PDF - 109 Kb)
- Appendix E Referees' reports (PDF - 60 Kb)
- References (PDF - 105 Kb)
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