Productivity Change of Surgeons During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Japan.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to compute surgical total factor productivity before and during the pandemic with Malmquist index, and to evaluate the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on its productivity change. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly shifted healthcare resources allocation; more healthcare resources have focused on measures against the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors collected data from all the surgical procedures performed in Teikyo University Hospital from April 1 through September 30 in 2019 and in 2020. Non-radial and non-oriented Malmquist model under the constant return-to-scale assumptions was employed. The decision-making unit was defined as a surgeon with the highest academic rank in surgery. Inputs were defined as (1) the number of medical doctors who a

SUBMITTER: Nakata Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9558861 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature