Being on the Productivity Frontier: Identifying “Triple Aim Performance” Hospitals

Hospital decision‐makers face trade‐offs that make it difficult to obtain the trifecta of high performance on clinical quality, patient experience, and technical efficiency. We use the term “triple aim performance” (TAP) to refer to the simultaneous achievement of these three goals. Using datasets from 2010 and 2012 and data envelopment analysis, we identify about 20 triple aim performance hospitals in each year among U.S. acute care hospitals...