Study of the medical service efficiency of county-level public general hospitals based on medical quality constraints: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Since the new medical reform in 2009, county-level hospitals in China have achieved rapid development, but health resource waste and shortage issues still exist.

Design

We applied the meta-frontier and slacks-based measurement-undesirable data envelopment analysis model to measure the medical service efficiency with or without medical quality constraints of the county-level public general hospitals (CPGHs). The assessment includes four inputs, three desirable outputs and one undesirable output. We conducted the assessment via Max-DEA V.8.19 software. Moreover, we analyse the factors affecting CPGHs' medical service efficiency based on the fractional response model.

Setting

A total of 77 sample CPGHs were selected from Shanxi province in China from 2013 to 2

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9872475 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature