ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HOSPITAL CARE SERVICES IN BULGARIA BY USING THE DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS FOR THE PERIOD 2010-2012
Journal Title: Българско списание за обществено здраве (Bulgarian Journal of Public Health) - Year 2013, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
In the current study, an economic analysis has been made on hospital activities that are included in the project of the World Bank - ICB 008 to use specialized software for hospitals for the period 2010-2012. By using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this study aims to measure the level of overall and pure technical efficiency, and scale efficiency in the hospital sector and, in particular, to assess the use of the funding of hospitals through clinical pathways (CPs). Empirical data show that CPs as a method of financing have functioned at a level of 90% and above the overall technical inefficiency. Moreover, the contribution of the scale inefficiency in overall technical inefficiency is less than what is associated with a managerial inefficiency (i.e. pure technical inefficiency).
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Petko Salchev, Peter Atanassov, Tatiana Dimitrova-Savova, Christian Griva
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