Efficiency, effectiveness, equity (E3). Evaluating hospital performance in three dimensions

There are well-established frameworks for comparing the performance of health systems cross-nationally on multiple dimensions. A sub-set of such comprehensive schema is taken up by criteria specifically applied to health service delivery, including hospital performance. We focus on evaluating hospital performance, using the New Zealand public hospital sector over the period 2001–2009 as a pragmatic and illustrative case study for cross-national...