Productivity of public hospitals in Nepal: a data envelopment analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Public hospitals in Nepal account for a major share of the total health budget. Therefore, questions are often asked about the performance of these hospitals. Existing measures of performance are limited to historical ratio analyses without any benchmarks. The objective of this study is to explore the trends in inputs, outputs and productivity changes in Nepalese public hospitals from 2011-2012 to 2013-2014.

Setting and participants

The study was conducted among 32 Nepalese public hospitals (23 district level and 9 higher level) for the three fiscal years from 2011-2012 to 2013-2014.

Outcome measures

First, basic ratio analyses were conducted for the input and output measures over the study years. Then, Malmquist productivity change scores were obtained usi

SUBMITTER: Silwal PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5642787 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature