The expression of hospital efficiency is multi-factorial. Often the benchmarks for assessing efficiency are flawed. This page gives a few examples of how efficiency measures can have hidden flaws or alternate ways to measure efficiency or process blockages.

Refer to the 'Hospital Beds' folder for details regarding efficient bed management and allocation and to the 'Capacity Management' folder for ways to allocate resources to match arriving demand. The 'HRG/PbR/PBC' folder contains additional material regarding the limitations of the HRG tariff.

Hospital Efficiency Series

Jones R 2009 Length of stay efficiency. British Journal of Healthcare Management 15(11), 563-564.

Jones R 2009 Crafting efficient bed pools. British Journal of Healthcare Management 15(12), 614-616.