DOI: 10.7664/CHE20140711
Efficiency Analysis on Medical Resources of County-Level Hospitals in Liaoning
Abstract：In order to provide data supports and policy suggestions for the reform and planning setting, the efficiency of the county-level hospitals in Liaoning was analyzed. Methods: The data envelopment analysis method was employed to evaluate the efficiency of 44 sample hospitals in Liaoning. The Malmquist index was used to analyze total factor productivity(TFP) from 2010 to 2012. Results:The inefficiency exists in sample hospitals. Only 20%of them were evaluated as relatively effective. The main reason for the inefficiency was the outpatient visits, emergency visits, discharged inpatients and bed utilization rate. Malmquist index displayed that the growth of total factor productivity change in sample hospitals were mainly due to the technological progress;while the contribution of pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency contribution were limited. Conclusion: The county-level general hospital reform in Liaoning should design reasonable planning to optimize the scale efficiency, improve the technical efficiency through internal management mechanism and receive the efficiency profit of technical progress.
Keywords：county-level hospitalefficiencydata envelopment analysisMalmquist IndexLiaoning
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 37-39 )