ABSTRACT
Objective To identify the efficiency of 13 adult psychiatric hospitals under the MentalHealth Department.Materials and methods This retrospective research paper was collected data fromthe budget year 2008 consisting 5 input factors (personnel costs, operating cost fromgovernment budget, operating costs from hospital profit, number of beds, and number of hospitalofficials) and 4 output factors (number of outpatients, number of inpatients, length of stay,and a mean of relative weight of Diagnosis Related Group showing the complexity level oftreatment of each particular patient). Then these input and output data were analyzed by usingdata envelopment analysis (DEA) technique.Results The results, by constant return to scale (CRS) showed that 9 out of 13hospitals were on the overall efficiency frontier having an average CRS of 0.954. Variablereturn to scale (VRS) showed that there were 11 hospitals on the technical efficiency frontierwith an average VRS of 0.972.Conclusion There were 9 psychiatric hospitals having high overall efficiency and11 psychiatric hospitals having high technical efficiency. However, there were some limitationsin some specific areas in psychiatric hospitals.Key words : efficiency, data envelopment analysis (DEA) model, psychiatric hospital