Estimating the scope for savings in referrals and drug prescription costs in the general Practice units of a UK primary care trust

This paper explores the potential for cost savings in the general Practice units of a Primary Care Trust (PCT) in the UK. We have used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to identify benchmark Practices, which offer the lowest aggregate referral and drugs costs controlling for the number, age, gender, a...

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Autor principal: Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (author)
Outros Autores: Portela, Maria C.A. Silva (author), Graveney, Mike (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2013
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/11497
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/11497