Table 3.

Overview technical efficiency of private hospitals compared with public hospitals

	Less Efficient	No Difference	More Efficient
FP	5 studies from Germany and Italy find private FP hospitals less efficient than public hospitals21, 24, 27, 28, 30	2 studies from Germany and Italy find no difference between private FP and public hospitals23, 25	1 study from Germany finds private FP hospitals to be more efficient than public hospitals20
NFP	3 studies from Germany find private NFP hospitals to be less efficient than public21, 24, 30	4 studies from Germany and Italy find no difference between private NFP and public hospitals20, 22, 23, 29	1 study from Austria finds private NFP hospitals to be more efficient than public hospitals19

Abbreviations: FP, for‐profit; NFP, not‐for‐profit.