Increasing competition in the service sector and the costs based on this play a key role in the competitive force.To avoid the disruption of service, increasing the revenue by reducing costs will foster competitiveness and satisfaction of patients in hospitals and in this regard, the importance of data envelopment method is highly demanding. In this study, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has found as an extremely widespread use of multi-criteria decision-making methods. Considering the production activities of all kinds of goods and services, it is no longer possible to produce a single output by using a single input.In Turkey, Istanbul is an important province for operating the public hospitals. These hospitals' main input and output indicators were determined and their activities were calculated. By this way, their activity ranking was established.After measurement, suggestions were made to the decision making units who have not got full activity score so as to increase their effectiveness.
In our research, 49 hospitals' which are affiliated to the Ministry of Health in Istanbul, input and output data were included. In 2014, the number of beds, doctors, nurses and other staff of hospitals was used as input data as well as polyclinic, emergency examination, inpatient, days of inpatient, operation + birth numbers were evaluated as output data. Input and output values are scale- varied with Max DEA 7 Basic program and based on the assumption of BCC (Banker, Charnes and Cooper) model as well as output were subjected to data envelopment analysis.As from the result of the analysis, 24 (49%) of the 49 hospitals were relatively productive and 25 (51%) were relatively inefficient. Of the 25 hospitals that were found inefficient, 14 hospitals' efficiency scores were between 0.90-0.99, 6 hospitals' were between 0.80-0.89 and the remaining 5 hospitals' were between 0.15-0.76.Hospital managers can use their existing resources more effectively by ensuring the performance evaluations in their hospitals and increase the productivity of health services. By this way they can meet the health services needs of the community at a higher rate.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Engineering |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | August 31, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Issue: 16 |