[Technical efficiency of traditional hospitals and public enterprises in Andalusia (Spain)].

Objective: To assess the technical efficiency of traditional public hospitals without their own legal identity and subject to administrative law, and that of public enterprise hospitals, with their own legal identities and partly governed by private law, all of them belonging to the taxypayer-funded health system of Andalusia during the period 2005 -2008.

Methods: The study included the 32 publicly-owned hospitals in Andalusia during the period 2005-2008. The method consisted of two stages.