Doctors, nurses, and the optimal scale size in the Portuguese public hospitals

Health care systems all over the world have been struggling with questions associated with the optimal scale of providers and how to (re)allocate their resources to better serve citizens [1]. The main objective of those systems is to deliver the most efficient and effective care to any citizen [2]. Optimal scale has been measured by means of beds [3], as proxy for the hospital capacity. However, no optimal scale regarding hospital employees has been computed until now. Reallocating employees from places where they are in excess to places where they are missing requires knowing exactly how much are they in excess/missing.
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