Table 4.

Scale efficiency of sample hospitals before and after the establishment of branched hospitals

Hospital	M-3	M-2	M-1	M	M + 1	M + 2	M + 3
A	0.6940	0.7260	0.7313	0.7447	0.7203	0.8333	0.9420
B	0.9030	0.9860	0.9963	0.9673	0.9577	0.9690	0.9710
C	1.0000	1.0000	1.0000	0.9757	0.9667	0.9827	1.0000
D	0.9420	0.9540	0.9847	0.9190	1.0000	1.0000	0.9327
E	1.0000	1.0000	1.0000	0.9870	0.9780	1.0000	1.0000
Mean	0.9078	0.9332	0.9425	0.9187	0.9245	0.9570	0.9691