A DEA evaluation of U.S. States’ healthcare systems in terms of their birth outcomes

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Highlights：

• Data envelopment analysis, robust principal component analysis, and bootstrapping.

• Performance of healthcare systems of the US in terms of their birth outcomes.

• Contextual factors explain the variation in healthcare systems’ performance.

• Identify those who are at higher risk of giving unfavorable birth outcome.

摘要

•Data envelopment analysis, robust principal component analysis, and bootstrapping.•Performance of healthcare systems of the US in terms of their birth outcomes.•Contextual factors explain the variation in healthcare systems’ performance.•Identify those who are at higher risk of giving unfavorable birth outcome.

论文关键词：Data envelopment analysis,Bootstrapping,Robust principal component analysis,Birth outcomes,Healthcare system efficiency

论文评审过程：Received 14 September 2020, Revised 31 January 2021, Accepted 22 May 2021, Available online 28 May 2021, Version of Record 3 June 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115278