DOI: 10.7664/CHE20170218
Study on the Efficiency of Public Hospitals' Medical Service and Its Influencing Factors in Tianjin
TU Yan
Abstract：Objective:To analyze the efficiency of 77 public hospitals' medical services and influencing factors in Tianjin.Methods:Using DEA method to measure the hospitals' medical service efficiency,establishing Tobit regression model to analyze the influencing factors of public hospitals medical service efficiency.Results:The overall efficiency of Tianjin public hospitals was low,most hospitals were not reasonable in the size,the significant influencing factors of Tianjin public hospitals' medical service efficiency including the per capita physician outpatient,the proportion of senior technical staffs,hospital gearing ratio,drug-income ratio and average fee per patient.Conclusion:Increasing the per capita physician outpatient and the proportion of senior technical staff could significantly enhance the overall technical efficiency,while decreasing the gearing ratio and the average fee of per patient were also beneficial to improve hospital efficiency.
Keywords：public hospitalmedical service efficiencydata evelopment analysisinfluencing factorsTobit modelTianjin
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 65-69 )