The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in healthcare with a focus on hospitals

S Kohl, J Schoenfelder, A Fügener… - Health care management …, 2019 - Springer
The healthcare sector in general and hospitals in particular represent a main application
area for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This paper reviews 262 papers of DEA …

[HTML][HTML] A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA: 1978–2016

A Emrouznejad, G Yang - Socio-economic planning sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

How efficient are referral hospitals in Uganda? A data envelopment analysis and tobit regression approach

PN Mujasi, EZ Asbu, J Puig-Junoy - BMC health services research, 2016 - Springer
Background Hospitals represent a significant proportion of health expenditures in Uganda,
accounting for about 26% of total health expenditure. Improving the technical efficiency of …

Technical efficiency of provincial public healthcare in South Africa

V Ngobeni, MC Breitenbach, GC Aye - Cost Effectiveness and Resource …, 2020 - Springer
Background Forty-nine million people or 83 per cent of the entire population of 59 million
rely on the public healthcare system in South Africa. Coupled with a shortage of medical …

Ownership and technical efficiency of hospitals: evidence from Ghana using data envelopment analysis

C Jehu-Appiah, S Sekidde, M Adjuik, J Akazili… - Cost Effectiveness and …, 2014 - Springer
Background In order to measure and analyse the technical efficiency of district hospitals in
Ghana, the specific objectives of this study were to (a) estimate the relative technical and …

Global healthcare resource efficiency in the management of COVID-19 death and infection prevalence rates

MC Breitenbach, V Ngobeni, GC Aye - Frontiers in public health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The scale of impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on society and the economy globally
provides a strong incentive to thoroughly analyze the efficiency of healthcare systems in …

Technical and scale efficiency of public community hospitals in Eritrea: an exploratory study

JM Kirigia, EZ Asbu - Health economics review, 2013 - Springer
Background Eritrean gross national income of Int
610percapitaislowerthantheaverageforAfrica(Int 1620) and considerably lower than the …

Efficiency of primary care in rural Burkina Faso. A two-stage DEA analysis

P Marschall, S Flessa - Health economics review, 2011 - Springer
Background Providing health care services in Africa is hampered by severe scarcity of
personnel, medical supplies and financial funds. Consequently, managers of health care …

Technical efficiency of selected hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia

M Ali, M Debela, T Bamud - Health economics review, 2017 - Springer
This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia.
Using six-year-round panel data for the period between 2007/08 and 2012/13, this study …

A new intuitionistic fuzzy scheme of data envelopment analysis for evaluating rural comprehensive health service centers

A Mahmoodirad, D Pamucar, S Niroomand - Socio-Economic Planning …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, the classical CCR-IO DEA model (an input-oriented form of the DEA model of
Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes [24] is extended to an intuitionistic fuzzy environment. For …