Data envelopment analysis on evaluating the effici

Authors: Bin Sun Lianyun Zhang Wenxiu Yang Jingchao Zhang Da Luo Chao Han

Publish Date: 2016/04/12

Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 182-188

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Abstract

Public hospitals are the most important components of health systems and account for a large proportion of health resources in China However few researches on the efficiency assessment of public hospitals have been conducted in Tianjin China On the basis of the data of annual health service report in 2013 from the Ministry of Health we measured the relative efficiency of the tertiary general public hospitals in Tianjin and estimated the magnitudes of output increase and/or input reduction by using data envelopment analysis to improve hospital efficiency The main findings of this study indicate that more than half of the sample hospitals operate at a technical and scale efficiency and the prevalent scale inefficiency is increasing returns to scale Moreover it is a prominent issue that health resource constraint and resource waste coexist Health policymakers and hospital administrators would need to address these problems by taking comprehensive measures such as optimizing the allocation of health resources implementing hierarchical diagnosis and treatment as well as innovating medicalservice operating mechanism of public hospital to improve the people’s wellbeing

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