Health care benchmarking and performance evaluation: an assessment using data envelopment analysis (DEA)

One of the most pressing problems in today’s health care system is performance evaluation. Performance evaluation in health care goes well beyond financialand efficiently issues directly to matters of life and death. Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation applies the analytical framework of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology to provide health care administrators with specific benchmarking tools for performance evaluation. Most important, the book provides health care practitioners and administrators with information of what is lacking in specific aspects of performance and then outlines specific ways how these performance inadequacies can be improved. Performance evaluation benchmarking methods that work are very much needed in today’s health care system. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a methodology that was developed to solve performance problems in service industries. This will be the first application of DEA on health care performance issues. INDICE: Trends in Health Care Performance.- Performance Measurement Issuesin Health Care.- Survey of Performance Evaluation Methods.- Efficiency Measurement via Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).- Basic DEA Models.- Alternative DEAModels.- Application of DEA Models with Discretionary, Non-discretionary and Categorical Variables.- Allocation or Cost Efficiency Models and their Applications in Health Care.- Longitudinal Evaluation with DEA.- Super Efficiency andFree Disposal Hull Models and their Application to Efficiency Analysis in Health Care.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Hospital Sector.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Physician Practice Sector.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Nursing Home Sector.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Health Maintenance Organizations.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Other Health Care Organizations.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-75447-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 222
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés