TY - JOUR AU - Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki AU - Hashimoto, Hideki AU - Matsuda, Shinya PY - 2012 DA - 2012/09/22 TI - Efficacy of a numerical value of a fixed-effect estimator in stochastic frontier analysis as an indicator of hospital production structure JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 334 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - The casemix-based payment system has been adopted in many countries, although it often needs complementary adjustment taking account of each hospital’s unique production structure such as teaching and research duties, and non-profit motives. It has been challenging to numerically evaluate the impact of such structural heterogeneity on production, separately of production inefficiency. The current study adopted stochastic frontier analysis and proposed a method to assess unique components of hospital production structures using a fixed-effect variable. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-334 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-12-334 ID - Kawaguchi2012 ER -