Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation An Assessment using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) /

• Main Author: Ozcan, Yasar A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 120
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Medicine.; Public health.; Econometrics.; Microeconomics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Business and Management, general.

One of the most pressing problems in today's health care system is performance evaluation. Performance evaluation in health care goes well beyond financial and efficiently issues directly to matters of life and death. HEALTH CARE BENCHMARKING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION applies the analytical fr...

Table of Contents:

• Methods
• Evaluation of Performance in Health Care
• Performance Measurement Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
• Returns to Scale Models
• Multiplier Models
• Non-Oriented and Measure Specific Models
• Longititudunal (Panel) Evaluations Using DEA
• Effectiveness and Other Models of DEA
• Applications
• Hospital Applications
• Physician Practice and Disease Specific Applications
• Nursing Home Applications
• Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Applications
• Home Health Agency Applications
• Applications for Other Health Care Organizations
• Other DEA Applications at Hospital Settings.