The impact is also found to work solely through total factor productivity and not via the marginal productivity of capital and labour. J Med Syst. Several forms of analysis are used to evaluate the efficiency of acute care Veterans Affairs hospitals. The smaller hospitals with fewer than 100 beds and hospitals not in operation a full year have been excluded. The types of analysis used are input ratio analysis and productivity analysis of three outputs consisting of surgeries, discharges and emergency and outpatient visits.
Results show that about one half of all hospitals are relatively inefficient.
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