Evaluation of Efficiency in Primary Health Care Centres: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis |
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Authors: | Florencio García Carmen Marcuello Diana Serrano & Olga Urbina |
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Institution: | Instituto Nacional de la Salud, Zaragoza, Spain,;Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain |
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Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to analyse one of the principal problems in primary health care management: the evaluation of efficiency in primary health care centres. Given the special characteristics of measuring outcome in primary care it is necessary to evaluate the performance of centres from a quality perspective too. The methodology used, DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), allows us to introduce quantitative and qualitative variables in a sample of primary care centres in a Spanish province. Once the efficiency of the different centres is known, we investigate the sensitivity of the methodology to changes in the definition of outputs used. |
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Keywords: | efficiency primary health care DEA |
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