Overview
- Performance evaluation benchmarking methods that work are very much needed in today’s health care system. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a methodology that was developed to solve performance problems in service industries. This will be the first application of DEA on health care performance issues
- This book will be of considerable interest to multiple markets groups: (1) academic researchers, (2) health care industry practitioners markets, and (3) a graduate-level course market in health services research, public health, and health administration programs
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 120)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Applications
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 important, 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.
Professor 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.
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)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation
Book Subtitle: An Assessment using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
Authors: Yasar A. Ozcan
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75448-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-75448-2Published: 08 December 2007
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 217
Number of Illustrations: 110 b/w illustrations
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Business and Management, general