The present situation of hospital efficiency evaluation in China:Based on bibiometrics analysis / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

This paper analyzed the present situation on efficiency in hospitals and reasons for the failure of im-plementation. The analysis found that the research experienced a stage of fragmentation-dualization-systematic phase. The research subjects mainly included integrated or general hospitals (84. 21% ), hospitals of Grade II or above (55. 79% ), mixed and local systems (95. 26% ), and public hospitals dominated with 97. 89% , all of the subjects being covered from 22 provinces and municipalities. The comprehensive, technical and pure technical efficiencies had propor-tions of 87. 89% , 68. 84% and 86. 84 respectively and were concentrated in the research content, the evaluation meth-od being mainly DEA and and/or BCC (67. 89% ). The selection of indicators was mainly qualitative (47. 36% for pure literature analysis) and the main indicators were almost internally set. The first three were used in the frequency divi-sion outpatient emergency number (55 visits), number of beds and fixed assets (44) and total expenditures (42). The main sources of data were public access (27. 89% ), internal data (31. 05% ), investigations or various surveys (30. 53% ) and the hospitals’ own data reports (15. 26% ), and more than half (54. 21% ) was single road. Conclusion:The hospital efficiency evaluation focused on the integrated public hospitals above the grade two, mainly based on the relative efficiency of DEA, which involves many contents, wide geographical area and large span but the selection of in-dicators, data sources, and quantification of factors still restrict the quality of the results. The imbalance between the needs of researchers and managers for efficiency evaluation, inadequate understanding ad unbalanced knowledge togeth- er with the lack of relevant policies hindered the transformation of results. Therefore, the consistent mechanism for hospi-tals efficiency evaluation should be established from the angle of top-level design and actual situation of hospitals in China.