Abstract
This article analyses the efficiency of health care foodservice operations and its determinants using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) boot-strapping approach. The purpose of using the bootstrapping approach is two-fold: first, to obtain the bias corrected estimates and the confidence intervals of DEA-efficiency scores and second, to overcome the correlation problem of DEA-efficiency scores and to provide consistent inferences in explaining the determinants of health care foodservice efficiency. The approach was implemented on a sample of 89 health care foodservice operations. The results showed the presence of inefficiency in the sample, with an average efficiency level of 72.6%. Further, the results from analysing the determinants of health care foodservice operations provided policy implication regarding the factors that might improve the efficiency of health care foodservice operations
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3547-3558 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Applied Economics |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 27 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |