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- W144421791 abstract "During the period of rapid growth within the health sector whichcharacterised the 1970s, routine evaluation of efficiency and/oreffectiveness within the system was minimal. The crisis which subsequentlygripped the public finances led, however, to a rather dramatic reversal ofthis trend and the expansion of the 1970s was abruptly constrained by thefinancial controls of the 1980s, when maintenance of the health servicesystem, at best, rather than continued expansion, became the priority.While health service effectiveness must be recognised as the highestpriority for any health system, this area of investigation is, of necessity,outside the scope of the present study. It is the area of health systemefficiency which provides the focus for our investigations here. Morespecifically, our concerns relate to the measurement of efficiency within thehospital service sector in particular while efficiency in service provisionand resource deployment are in themselves, important objectives for thehospital system, efficiency is also a necessary pre-condition for the pursuitof optimal quality of care standards within this system.While the study begins with an overview of developments and changeswithin the Irish hospital system since 1980, this is a necessary backdrop tothe central question addressed in the study: what do hospitals do? Whilethe patients treated by a hospital and the bed-days used can be easilyquantified, the question which arises is whether this type of descriptiveinformation can adequately portray the complexity of patient demand andservice provision within the hospital system. To take an example: whatconclusion can be drawn fro III the infonnaLion thal a maternity hospitaland an acute general hospital both have 10,000 discharges in a particularyear. Does this mean that both hospitals would be expected to have thesaine level of resource requirement within the lime period under review?The usefulness of the information on discharge levels varies between thesehospitals. Discharge level in the maternity hospital may provide aworthwhile starting point for the assessment of service demand andresource requirement because the service mix for a specialty hospital ofthis type is quite predictable. This is not the case for the acute generalhospital, and information on discharge levels would be an inadequate basisfor the assessment of service requirements and resource needs." @default.
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- W144421791 title "Measuring activity and costs in Irish hospitals : a study of hospital case mix" @default.
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