Multifactor efficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis with an application to urban hospitals

被引：46

作者：

O'Neill L. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Division of Health Management and Policy, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City

来源：

Health Care Management Science | 1998年 / 1卷 / 1期

关键词：

Data Envelopment Analysis; Data Envelopment Analysis Model; Urban Hospital; Input Ratio; Dual Multiplier;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1019030215768

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摘要：

A perennial difficulty in measuring hospital efficiency, and one with important policy implications, is how to compare teaching versus non-teaching hospitals. This problem reflects a broader methodological concern in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is the comparison of specialist and non-specialist Decision-Making Units (DMUs). This paper presents a new performance measure in DEA, termed multifactor efficiency, which represents an average partial factor productivity index summed over all output-input ratios. We apply this technique to measure the performance of 27 large, urban hospitals, including 13 teaching hospitals. These results were reviewed and validated by a panel of health care experts, and multifactor efficiency was shown to offer several benefits that enhance and complement existing performance measures in DEA. © Baltzer Science Publishers BV.

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