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This paper compares teaching and non-teaching hospitals in terms of their provision of patient services. We proceed by comparing the frontiers of the teaching and non-teaching hospitals using a data envelopment (DEA) type approach, which we apply to a sample of 236 teaching hospitals and 556 non-teaching hospitals operating in the US in 1994. Our results suggest that only about 10% of the teaching hospitals can effectively “compete” with non-teaching hospitals based on the provision of patient services.
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Grosskopf, S., Margaritis, D. & Valdmanis, V. Comparing Teaching and Non-teaching Hospitals: A Frontier Approach (Teaching vs. Non-teaching Hospitals). Health Care Management Science 4, 83–90 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011449425940
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