Efficiency evaluation of county-level public hospital based on data envelopment analysis / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore operating efficiency of county-level public hospital by using data envelopment analysis ,provide reference ,and basis for health decision-making .Methods The health resources data of 16 county-level public hospitals were ran-domly selected from 2008 to 2011 ,its relative efficiency were studied by data envelopment analysis method of CCR-CRS and BCC-VRS model ,the change trend from 2008 to 2011 were analyzed through the Malmquist productivity index .Results The average ef-ficiency value was 0 .938 in 16 county-level hospitals in 2011 ,7 hospitals was DEA efficient and 9 hospitals was non-DEA efficient (8 hospitals with Scale efficiency decline gradually ,another one with increasing gradually ) .The total factor productivity increased 2 .5% from 2008 to 2011 average annual ,the productivity first decreased from 2008 to 2009 ,and then increased from 2009 to 2011 . Conclusion The overall efficiency 16 county-level hospitals is not high ,it is necessary to develope hospital scale reasonable , strength hospitals′management level and improve technical ability of doctors .