DocumentCode
3571790
Title
Evaluating the Efficiency of Hospital´s Departments using DEA
Author
Wang, Ronggui ; Yu, Ming
Author_Institution
Dept. of Ind. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
fYear
2006
Firstpage
1167
Lastpage
1170
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SOLI.2006.328916
Filename
4125751
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