The Development and Application of a Modified Data Envelopment Analysis for Assessing the Efficiency of Different Kinds of Hospitals

The extremely competitive medical market sector in Taiwan and the National Health Insurance scheme have led to the implementation of a Global Budget System. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model is used to determine the operational efficiency of each kind of hospital found in Taiwan and to ident...

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Published inInternational journal of management Vol. 24; no. 2; p. 318
Main Authors Pi-Fang, Hsu, Hui-Chen, Hu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Poole International Journal of Management 01.06.2007
Subjects
Armed forces
Data envelopment analysis
Efficiency
Health care policy
Health insurance
Hospitals
Kruskal-Wallis test
National health insurance
Production functions
Studies
Utility rates
Taiwan
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Summary:The extremely competitive medical market sector in Taiwan and the National Health Insurance scheme have led to the implementation of a Global Budget System. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model is used to determine the operational efficiency of each kind of hospital found in Taiwan and to identify an improved way of allocating resources. Simple additive weighting (SAW) is revised based on the weights in the DEA model. Additionally, the performances of different hospital types are compared using the Kruskal-Wallis test. The operational efficiency scores of the different kinds of hospitals, in terms of ownership, were ranked in the following order: corporation hospitals, private hospitals, municipal hospitals, and department of health hospitals, veteran's hospitals and armed forces hospitals. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0813-0183