Article ID: | iaor20052655 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 263 |
End Page Number: | 273 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2004 |
Journal: | Health Care Management Science |
Authors: | O'Neill Liam, Dexter Franklin |
Keywords: | statistics: data envelopment analysis |
We develop and validate a method to measure ‘market capture’ of inpatient, elective surgery. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to measure the efficiency of the market capture for Perioperative Services at 53 non-metropolitan Pennsylvania hospitals. Eight procedures are studied, representing a wide spectrum of elective, scheduled, inpatient surgery (