Are hospitals producing quality care efficiently? An analysis using Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

This paper examines efficiency of producing quality in hospitals between 2009 and 2013 using Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the hospital characteristics that contribute to this efficiency. Dynamic Network DEA was used to compute efficiency scores for hospital sub-divisions i.e. medical/surgical care (patient visits, surgeries and discharges) and quality. Pearson's correlation test was performed to assess if there are...