Milliken, Olga, Devlin, Rose Anne, Barham, Victoria, Hogg, William, Dahrouge, Simone, and Russell, Grant
Subjects
*MEDICAL care, *DATA envelopment analysis, *CAPITATION fees (Medical care), *MEDICAL fees, *PRIMARY care, *REGRESSION analysis
Abstract
This paper compares the relative productive efficiencies of four models of primary care service delivery using the data envelopment analysis method on 130 primary care practices in Ontario, Canada. A quality-controlled measure of output and two input scenarios are employed: one with full-time-equivalent labour inputs and the other with total expenditures. Regression analysis controls for the mix of patients in the practice population. Overall, we find that community health centres fare the worst when it comes to relative efficiency scores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]