Do Hospitals Affiliated With the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences Perform Efficiently? Non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis

• Main Authors: Satar Rezaei (Author), Nooredin Dopeykar (Author), Mohsen Barouni (Author), Mohammad Jafari (Author), Fardin Gharibi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary

<strong>Background:</strong> One way to improve the performance of hospitals, the largest resource-consuming units in the healthcare sector, is to continuously evaluate their performance.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> The current study assessed the performance of hospitals affiliated with the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences using data envelopment analysis (DEA).<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> This retrospective descriptive-analytic study used DEA to assess efficiency types (technical, managerial, and scale) in hospitals of the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences (n = 12) in the years 2007 to 2011. The number of active beds, nurses, physicians (general and specialist), and other staff were inputs; inpatient admission and occupied bed days were outputs. Stata version 12 was used for data analysis.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> The mean technical, scale, and managerial efficiency values were 0.85, 0.89, and 0.95, respectively. The highest and lowest slack inputs were nurses and active beds, respectively.<br /><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The findings indicate that Kurdistan hospitals were less than appropriately efficient during the studied period. They also suggest that there is a capacity of about 15% for enhancing output in hospitals (compared with the most efficient studied hospitals) without increasing costs or inputs.

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2476-390X
2476-3918
10.21859/hpr-0104135