Blatnik Patricia, Bojnec Štefan, Tušak Matej
Department of Economics, University of Primorska, Faculty of management, Cankarjeva 5, 6000Koper, Slovenia.
Department of social and humanistic sciences in sport, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of sport, Gortanova 22, 1000Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Open Med (Wars). 2017 Jul 6;12:214-225. doi: 10.1515/med-2017-0031. eCollection 2017.
The chief aim of this study was to analyze secondary healthcare providers' efficiency, focusing on the efficiency analysis of Slovene general hospitals. We intended to present a complete picture of technical, allocative, and cost or economic efficiency of general hospitals.
We researched the aspects of efficiency with two econometric methods. First, we calculated the necessary quotients of efficiency with the stochastic frontier analyze (SFA), which are realized by econometric evaluation of stochastic frontier functions; then, with the data envelopment analyze (DEA), we calculated the necessary quotients that are based on the linear programming method.
Results on measures of efficiency showed that the two chosen methods produced two different conclusions. The SFA method concluded Celje General Hospital is the most efficient general hospital, whereas the DEA method concluded Brežice General Hospital was the hospital to be declared as the most efficient hospital.
Our results are a useful tool that can aid managers, payers, and designers of healthcare policy to better understand how general hospitals operate. The participants can accordingly decide with less difficulty on any further business operations of general hospitals, having the best practices of general hospitals at their disposal.
本研究的主要目的是分析二级医疗服务提供者的效率，重点是斯洛文尼亚综合医院的效率分析。我们旨在全面呈现综合医院的技术效率、配置效率以及成本或经济效率。
我们运用两种计量经济学方法研究效率方面。首先，我们使用随机前沿分析（SFA）计算必要的效率商数，这通过对随机前沿函数进行计量经济学评估来实现；然后，我们使用数据包络分析（DEA）计算基于线性规划方法的必要商数。
效率度量结果表明，所选用的两种方法得出了两种不同的结论。SFA方法得出结论，采列综合医院是最有效率的综合医院，而DEA方法得出结论，布雷日采综合医院应被宣布为最有效率的医院。
我们的结果是一个有用的工具，可帮助医疗保健政策的管理者、付款人和设计者更好地了解综合医院的运营方式。参与者因此可以更轻松地决定综合医院的任何进一步业务运营，因为他们可以借鉴综合医院的最佳实践。
