Data Envelopment Analysis on Evaluating the Efficiency of Public Hospitals in Tianjin,China

Public hospitals are the most important components of health systems and account for a large proportion of health resources in China. However, few researches on the efficiency assessment of public hospitals have been conducted in Tianjin, China. On the basis of the data of annual health service repo...

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Published inTransactions of Tianjin University Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 182 - 188
Main Author 孙彬 张连云 杨文秀 张竞超 骆达 韩超
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tianjin Tianjin University 01.04.2016
Subjects
Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences
Mechanical Engineering
multidisciplinary
Science
医疗服务
卫生部
天津市
数据包络分析法
组成部分
综合性医院
评价
资源浪费
public hospitals
efficiency
data envelopment analysis
Tianjin
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ISSN1006-4982
1995-8196
DOI10.1007/s12209-016-2725-8

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Summary:Public hospitals are the most important components of health systems and account for a large proportion of health resources in China. However, few researches on the efficiency assessment of public hospitals have been conducted in Tianjin, China. On the basis of the data of annual health service report in 2013 from the Ministry of Health, we measured the relative efficiency of the tertiary general public hospitals in Tianjin and estimated the magnitudes of output increase and/or input reduction by using data envelopment analysis to improve hospital efficiency. The main findings of this study indicate that more than half of the sample hospitals operate at a technical and scale efficiency, and the prevalent scale inefficiency is increasing returns to scale. Moreover, it is a prominent issue that health resource constraint and resource waste coexist. Health policy-makers and hospital administrators would need to address these problems by taking comprehensive measures such as optimizing the allocation of health resources, implementing hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, as well as innovating medical-service operating mechanism of public hospital to improve the people＇s wellbeing.
Bibliography:public hospitals; efficiency; data envelopment analysis; Tianjin
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Sun Bin, Zhang Lianyun , Yang Wenxiu Zhang Jingchao, Luo Da, Han Chao （1. School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China; 2. Tianjin Medical Information Center, Tianjin 300070, China）
Public hospitals are the most important components of health systems and account for a large proportion of health resources in China. However, few researches on the efficiency assessment of public hospitals have been conducted in Tianjin, China. On the basis of the data of annual health service report in 2013 from the Ministry of Health, we measured the relative efficiency of the tertiary general public hospitals in Tianjin and estimated the magnitudes of output increase and/or input reduction by using data envelopment analysis to improve hospital efficiency. The main findings of this study indicate that more than half of the sample hospitals operate at a technical and scale efficiency, and the prevalent scale inefficiency is increasing returns to scale. Moreover, it is a prominent issue that health resource constraint and resource waste coexist. Health policy-makers and hospital administrators would need to address these problems by taking comprehensive measures such as optimizing the allocation of health resources, implementing hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, as well as innovating medical-service operating mechanism of public hospital to improve the people＇s wellbeing.
ISSN:1006-4982
1995-8196
DOI:10.1007/s12209-016-2725-8