Rendimiento hospitalario y benchmarking

  1. Juan Carlos Martín 1
  2. Mª Isabel Ortega-Díaz 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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    Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01teme464

  2. 2 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0122p5f64

Journal:
Revista de economía aplicada

ISSN: 1133-455X

Year of publication: 2016

Volume: 24

Issue: 70

Pages: 27-51

Type: Article

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Abstract

Measuring the performance of hospitals and developing a ranking of them require models that take into account the different nature of the decision units to compare, especially focusing on measures of productivity and efficiency. This paper proposes the use of a conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) with input orientation to analyze the technical efficiency of general hospitals in Spain. In addition, a cross-efficiency (X-DEA) model is proposed to obtain a ranking of those hospitals that are considered efficient. This paper also proposes a method to analyze the degree of importance of each of the dimensions considered in the set of efficient hospitals to identify those factors that can be considered critical, so they can be used as a tool for hospital managers in order to establish improvement programs. This issue is particularly relevant nowadays in Spain given the controversy generated in the health sector by government spending cuts.

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