Improving productivity: theory and application to Australian hospitals

该项目旨在改进分析组织生产力和效率的现有方法。新方法将应用于澳大利亚医院，以分析其生产力和效率，确定最佳做法及其决定因素，并提出改进和必要改革的建议。澳大利亚的医疗保健成本很高，约占国内生产总值的5%，而且增长迅速，这意味着应用通过该项目开发的方法可以节省数十亿美元，更重要的是，可以挽救数千人的生命。该项目的预期成果之一是提供分析经济体系生产力和效率的高级理论和实践方法，以增进对改进潜力和必要改革的了解。

This project aims to improve existing methods for analysing productivity and efficiency of organisations. The new methods will be applied to Australian hospitals, to analyse their productivity and efficiency, identify the best-practices and their determinants and recommend improvements and necessary reforms. The high level of healthcare costs in Australia, about 5 percent of gross domestic product, as well as their rapid and accelerating growth, imply that application of methods developed through this project may save billions of dollars and, more importantly, thousands of lives. An expected outcome of this project will be superior theoretical and practical methods for analysing productivity and efficiency of economic systems, to enhance understanding of the potential for improvements and of the necessary reforms.