Efficiency Analysis of Medical Care Resources in the U.S. Army Health Services Command

Abstract

Data Envelopment Analysis is a relatively new method for measuring and evaluating the efficiency of not-for-profit entities with multiple outputs and multiple inputs. Without requiring a priori weights and without requiring explicit specification of interdependencies that may be present between variables it (a) provides and overall measure of performance efficiency from observational data and (b) identifies sources and estimates amounts of inefficiency that may be present in each such source. This paper reports on results from studies of DEA for its possible use in evaluating the performance of 24 Army Health Care Facilities. These DEA results are reviewed and compared with results from alternate methods (often used for efficiency analysis) such as statistical regressions and standards imposed by HCFA.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159742

Entities

People

  • Abraham Charnes
  • B. Golany
  • D. E. Wiggins
  • Matthew Cooper
  • W. W. Dieck-assad

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

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  • Biomedical

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  • Air Force
  • Computer Programming
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Databases
  • Health Care
  • Health Care Facilities
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Medical Personnel
  • Models
  • Operations Research
  • Patient Care
  • Physicians
  • Standards
  • United States

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  • Political science

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