Article ID: | iaor19981250 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 80 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 608 |
End Page Number: | 618 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1995 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Wilson Paul W., Dusansky Richard |
Keywords: | statistics: data envelopment analysis, health services |
This paper examines the relative efficiency of alternative methods of producing care for the developmentally disabled. A linear programming framework is used to construct a production frontier which allows measurement of relative efficiency among institutions in the sample. Tests are performed to detect influential observations in the data which might result from measurement error which could distort the efficiency measures. Different types of institutions are compared in terms of average efficiency. Policy implications of the analysis are discussed in the concluding section.