Table 1.

Variables for the calculation of technical efficiency

	Variables
Input variables	Total costs
Output variables	No. of physicians that work in primary care	No. of general practitioner and paediatricians
		No. of physicians for duty doctor
		No. of physicians of the emergency and ambulance services
	No. of hospitalization services	No. of hospitalizations for resident population in the LHSs corrected by the average weight of DRG
		No. of non-self-sufficient residents cared into residential facilities.
	Pharmaceutical services	No. of the Defined Daily Dose used out of hospital
	No. of outpatient services	No. of outpatient services (outpatient clinics and diagnostics, for resident population in Local Health Authorities)
		No. of visits at home (integrated domiciliary care)
		No. of access at Emergency Department
		No. of vaccines (flu for elderly people, German measles, mumps vaccines)
		No. of screenings (breast, cervix, colon)
		No. of inspections for safety and security at work