Efficiency Analysis of Medical Care Resources in the U.S. Army Health Services Command

摘要

Data Envelopment Analysis is a relatively new method for measuring and evaluating the efficiency of not-for-profit entities with multiple outputs and multiple inputs. Without requiring a priori weights and without requiring explicit specification of interdependencies that may be present between variables it (a) provides an overall measure of performance efficiency from observational data and (b) identifies sources and estimates amounts of inefficiency that may be present in each such source. This paper reports on results from studies of DEA for its possible use in evaluating the performance of 24 Army Health Care Facilities. These DEA results are reviewed and compared with results from alternate methods (often used for efficiency analysis) such as statistical regressions and standards imposed by HCFA.