Aydin Teymourifar
Anadolu University, Turkey
Title: Analyzing efficiency of the sections of a hospital using the data envelopment analysis
Biography
Biography: Aydin Teymourifar
Abstract
Efficiency measurement of health organizations using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has gained importance with increasing spending on health services. The aim of this study is to analyze the efficiency of 10 surgical services of a hospital and also to offer suggestions for increasing their productivity. At first, as seen in Figure 1, decision-making units, model, input and output of some previous studies are summarized. Then, the input-oriented model of the DEA method under Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) is used to measure the efficiency of sections. The model has 2 inputs, i.e. the number of personnel and beds, and also 2 outputs, i.e. capacity utilization rate, the total number of operations. Data Envelopment Analysis Toolbox of MATLAB and Excel are used to analyze the data. After recognizing the efficient and inefficient sections, the efficient ones are ranked with Andersen and Petersen model, Tone’s SBM model and cross efficiency evaluation, whose advantages and drawbacks for the ranking are discussed. The results prove that it is possible to increase the efficiency of the sections with efficient using the current resources and without increasing costs