The efficiency of hospitals: platform for sustainable health care system

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70883521%3A28120%2F20%3A63526029" target="_blank" >RIV/70883521:28120/20:63526029 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/690" target="_blank" >https://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/690</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2020.8.2(8)" target="_blank" >10.9770/jesi.2020.8.2(8)</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The efficiency of hospitals: platform for sustainable health care system

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Hospitals and other providers of health services are facing enormous pressure to reduce costs while providing better services for patients without lowering their quality. By utilising a two-stage dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach, we explore whether there is a compromise between the production of services and the quality of services in the process of providing health care at the level of hospitals in Slovakia. While the first stage deals with the production efficiency of the hospitals, the second stage deals with the quality of service using patient-reported safety and satisfaction measures. The efficiency of hospitals in Slovakia is assessed, using hospital-level data from the database of INEKO for the years 2015 and 2018. In order to dynamically analyse the efficiency changes during the analysed period, the Malmquist index was used. The results revealed that overall technical efficiency increased over the analysed period. We can also see an increase within the service production division as well as service quality division. The results obtained represent a significant platform for the creators of health policy at the national level, and for the creators of the strategic regional health plans as a basis of continuous creation of mechanisms that are inevitable for providing a sustainable system of the Slovak health care at the regional level. The global threats of epidemics, such as COVID-19 pandemic, address the question of public health systems’ sustainability, which enormously increases.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The efficiency of hospitals: platform for sustainable health care system

Popis výsledku anglicky

Hospitals and other providers of health services are facing enormous pressure to reduce costs while providing better services for patients without lowering their quality. By utilising a two-stage dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach, we explore whether there is a compromise between the production of services and the quality of services in the process of providing health care at the level of hospitals in Slovakia. While the first stage deals with the production efficiency of the hospitals, the second stage deals with the quality of service using patient-reported safety and satisfaction measures. The efficiency of hospitals in Slovakia is assessed, using hospital-level data from the database of INEKO for the years 2015 and 2018. In order to dynamically analyse the efficiency changes during the analysed period, the Malmquist index was used. The results revealed that overall technical efficiency increased over the analysed period. We can also see an increase within the service production division as well as service quality division. The results obtained represent a significant platform for the creators of health policy at the national level, and for the creators of the strategic regional health plans as a basis of continuous creation of mechanisms that are inevitable for providing a sustainable system of the Slovak health care at the regional level. The global threats of epidemics, such as COVID-19 pandemic, address the question of public health systems’ sustainability, which enormously increases.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

ISSN

2345-0282

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

8

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

LT - Litevská republika

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

133-146

Kód UT WoS článku

000593042200008

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85097282156