Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation: An Assessment using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

by Yasar A. Ozcan

Overview

One of the most pressing problems in today's health care system is performance evaluation. Performance evaluation in health care goes well beyond financial and efficiently issues directly to matters of life and death. HEALTH CARE BENCHMARKING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION applies the analytical framework of Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to provide health care administrators with specific benchmarking tools for performance evaluation. Most importantly, the book provides health care practitioners and administrators with information of what is lacking in specific aspects of performance and then outlines the ways how these performance inadequacies can be improved.

Dr. Ozcan is a professor of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Health Care Management Science. He has written a book that will have wide use in the academic and practitioner health care communities. It is a book that will be particularly influential in the application and utility of performance measures in the health care systems worldwide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387754475
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/14/2007
Series:	International Series in Operations Research and Management Science , #120
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

Dr. Ozcan is a professor of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Health Care Management Science. He has written a book that will have wide use in the academic and practitioner health care communities. It is a book that will be particularly influential in the application and utility of performance measures in the health care systems worldwide.

Table of Contents

Trends in Health Care Performance.- Performance Measurement Issues in Health Care.- Survey of Performance Evaluation Methods.- Efficiency Measurement via Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).- Basic DEA Models.- Alternative DEA Models.- Application of DEA Models with Discretionary, Non-discretionary and Categorical Variables.- Allocation or Cost Efficiency Models and their Applications in Health Care.- Longitudinal Evaluation with DEA.- Super Efficiency and Free Disposal Hull Models and their Application to Efficiency Analysis in Health Care.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Hospital Sector.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Physician Practice Sector.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Nursing Home Sector.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Health Maintenance Organizations.- Best Practices and Benchmarking with DEA in Other Health Care Organizations.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book presents a valuable collection of DEA models, with associated mathematical optimization models applied to different areas of health care. The author, a leading expert in the area of heath care, intends this book for students of quantitative methods for health care, concerned with the methods of DEA for performance analysis and decision making. ... this book contains a survey of many useful topics and issues relevant for academics, students and practitioners. Therefore, this is a very interesting and useful book and it is one of the best books in the area of quantitative methods for health care.” (Dr. Sardar M. N. Islam Ph. D., LL. B., Professor of Business, Economics and Finance, Victoria University, Australia)

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The present book by Doctor Yasar Ozcan is clear and very well structured. … This is an important text book for post-graduate students and professionals that devote their work and research on improving the efficiency of heath care services. It also provides an interesting introduction and overview on efficiency analysis, performance measurement and DEA for those graduated in Management Science, Operations Research or Applied Mathematics that are intended to follow their research work and activity on heath system issues." (Pedro Martins, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1166, 2009)

“Professor Ozcan’s text … provide a valuable text for performance analysts in the health sector wanting to expand their knowledge of alternative approaches; as well as for data envelopment analysis (DEA) experts wanting to apply their skills in the health sector. … The software provided … was enough to understand the relatively modest examples which are used throughout the text. … the software would be a useful tool for pursuing real-life DEA studies. Overall, this is a good text … .” (S. Peck, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 60 (9), 2009)

From the Publisher