Scale and scope economies in Mexican private medical units

Scale and scope economies in Mexican private medical units.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate technical efficiency and potential presence of scale and scope economies in Mexican private medical units (PMU) that will improve management decisions. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used data envelopment analysis methods with inputs and outputs for 2 105 Mexican PMU published in 2010 by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía from the "Estadística de Unidades Médica...

From Economies of Density and Network Scale to Multioutput Economies of Scale and Scope: a Synthesis

For more than twenty years, the cost structure of transport industries in general, and the airline industry in particular, has been analyzed through the calculation of two indices: returns to density (RTD) and returns to scale (RTS), which were originally proposed by Caves et al. (1984). During this period, there have been many observations, amendments, caveats and corrections about their calcu...

Economies of scale in medical education? Or diseconomies of scale?

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Economies of scale and scope in publicly funded biomedical and health research: evidence from the literature

BACKGROUND Publicly funded biomedical and health research is expected to achieve the best return possible for taxpayers and for society generally. It is therefore important to know whether such research is more productive if concentrated into a small number of 'research groups' or dispersed across many. METHODS We undertook a systematic rapid evidence assessment focused on the research questi...