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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Main Author: Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (author)
Other Authors: Portela, Maria C.A. Silva (author), Graveney, Mike (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Cost efficiency
Price efficiency
Data envelopment analysis
Primary health care
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/11497
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/11497

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