Title :
Evaluating the Efficiency of Hospital´s Departments using DEA
Author :
Wang, Ronggui ; Yu, Ming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
Abstract :
Departments are the fundamental structural units in hospital. The efficiency of departments is the key purpose in running a hospital. The article presents a way via data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify relative performance efficiency of several departments based on source data from the hospital. The result of the article can be used to aid in resource allocation decision, such as hiring and beds relocation among different departments
Keywords :
data envelopment analysis; decision making; health care; hospitals; linear programming; resource allocation; data envelopment analysis; decision making unit; hospital department efficiency; linear programming; resource allocation; Business continuity; Costs; Data envelopment analysis; Decision making; Hospitals; Medical services; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Resource management; Comprehensive evaluation system; Cordys BCP; workflow;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2006. SOLI '06. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0317-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0318-9
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2006.328916
