HODNOTENIE TECHNICKEJ EFEKTÍVNOSTI NEMOCNÍC A ODMEŇOVANIE ZDRAVOTNÍKOV

• Authors: Novosadová Ivana , Dlouhý Martin

Title variants

EN

Evaluation of technical efficiency of acute hospitals and its relation to wages of health personnel

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Evaluation of efficiency in the health care sector is an important topic of public policy. This paper analyzes technical efficiency of 119 Czech hospitals in 2005 by data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA is a method based on the production theory and the mathematical programming that specifies the production frontier as the most pessimistic piecewise linear envelopment of the data. We analyze the sample with the input-oriented constant-returns-to-scale model (the CCR-I model) and the input-oriented variable-returns-to-scale model (the BCC-I model). For an inefficient hospital, the method determines the sources of inefficiency and corresponding target values. We found no strong correlation between technical efficiency and wages of health personnel.

Keywords

EN

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL'S TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 763-792
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Novosadová Ivana

author

Dlouhý Martin

• I. Novosadova, Ekonomicky ustav SAV, Sancová 56, 811 05 Bratislava 1, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA03467079