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    Med Care. 1984 Oct;22(10):922-38.

    Hospital efficiency measurement and evaluation. Empirical test of a new technique.

    Abstract

    A new technique for identifying inefficient hospitals, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), is field tested by application to a group of teaching hospitals. DEA is found to provide meaningful insights into the location and nature of hospital inefficiencies as judged by the opinion of a panel of hospital experts. DEA provides insights about hospital efficiency not available from the widely used efficiency evaluation techniques of ratio analysis and econometric-regression analysis. DEA is, therefore, suggested as a means to help identify and measure hospital inefficiency as a basis for directing management efforts toward increasing efficiency and reducing health care costs.

    PMID:
    6436590
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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