Application of Combination Evaluation Method in Evaluation of Sci-tech Influence of Hospitals / 中国医院管理

ABSTRACT

Objective To apply the combination evaluation model in the comprehensive evaluation of sci-tech influence of hospitals in China.Method 42 Grade-Ⅲll hospitals were selected and evaluated by analytic hierarchy process (AHP),principal components analysis and entropy method.Kendall's coefficient of concordance (W) was applied to check the coherence of the evaluation results from the three methods above.Average method,Borda method,Copeland method and fuzzy Borda method were used for combining the single evaluation result.Spearman rank correlation was then used for testing whether the combination evaluation results matched the single evaluation result.Result Kendall's W correlation test showed consistency among three single evaluation results.A strong correlation between each combination evaluation result and the single evaluation result was observed by Spearman rank correlation analysis.The average method was chosen as the best method based on the Spearman rank correlation coefficient.Conclusion The study confirmed that the combination evaluation method can be applied in evaluating sci-tech influence of hospitals in China.