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July 28, 2026HealthcareOpen Access

Data-Driven Efficiency Benchmarking for Risk Mitigation: A Data Envelopment Analysis of U.S. Hospitals, 2018–2024

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DDDiane DolezelSSSuhila Sawesi

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Overview

Randomized trial evaluates efficiency in U.S. hospitals, indicating resource conversion gaps for better care delivery.

Key Points

  • This study aims to evaluate the technical efficiency of U.S. acute care hospitals and how IT investments affect clinical service delivery.
  • Utilized a longitudinal panel of 8589 hospital-year observations for analysis.
  • Estimated technical efficiency using output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) under variable returns to scale.
  • Examined associations with a Simar–Wilson double-bootstrapped regression on 2147 complete cases.
  • Mean DEA efficiency was 0.567 with 7.38% of hospitals at the efficiency frontier.
  • Efficient hospitals had higher IT operating expenditures and a mean output expansion potential of 102.49%.
  • Higher case mix complexity and larger operational scale were positively associated with technical efficiency.

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Dolezel et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6851062845b684d16f048bhttps://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare14152273
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