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Thanassoulis, Emmanuel, Silva Portela, Maria C. A. and Graveney, M. (2014) Using DEA to estimate potential savings at GP units at medical specialty level. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Volume 48 (Number 1). pp. 38-48. doi:10.1016/j.seps.2013.11.001 ISSN 0038-0121.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2013.11.001
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to identify benchmark cost-efficient General Practitioner (GP) units at delivering health care in the Geriatric and General Medicine (GMG) specialty and estimate potential cost savings. The use of a single medical specialty makes it possible to reflect more accurately the medical condition of the List population of the Practice so as to contextualize its expenditure on care for patients. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate the potential for cost savings at GP units and to decompose these savings into those attributable to the reduction of resource use, to altering the mix of resources used and to those attributable to securing better resource ‘prices’. The results reveal a considerable potential for savings of varying composition across GP units.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Socio-Economic Planning Sciences | ||||||
Publisher: | Pergamon | ||||||
ISSN: | 0038-0121 | ||||||
Official Date: | March 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 48 | ||||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 38-48 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.seps.2013.11.001 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Embodied As: | 1 |
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