Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references. / This paper investigates the relationship between scale and efficiency through the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to a set of South African private hospitals over the three year period from 2007 to 2009. As part of the investigation, this paper provides a description of the current research into scale and efficiency with a focus on definition and measurement. It also provides an introduction to DEA as a tool for measuring the relationship between hospital scale and efficiency. Based on the underlying set of private hospitals, this investigation found that scale efficiency improvements are likely to be possible.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/5811 |
Date | January 2013 |
Creators | Linden, Andrew |
Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Commerce, Division of Actuarial Science |
Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Master Thesis, Masters, MBusSc |
Format | application/pdf |
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