Thursday, 23 February 2012

Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency?

"Our results suggest that competition between public providers prompted public hospitals to improve their productivity by decreasing their pre-surgery, overall and post-surgery length of stay."

Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service
Z Cooper, S Gibbons, S Jones, A McGuire
Centre for Economic Performance
February 2012

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