caa a22 4500 397499922 CHVBK 20180308164530.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199509 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.161 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.161 The efficiency of Scottish acute hospitals: An application of data envelopment analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Bruce Hollingsworth, David Parkin] Measurement of the efficiency of health services would aid the promotion of a better allocation of health care resources. Economic analysis suggests a number of ways of defining and measuring efficiency. However, this rarely informs measures used in health service management. This paper looks at the potential for the use in the United Kingdom's National Health Service of the linear programming based method of data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA is applied to data from 75 UK acute hospitals. The results demonstrate the capacity of DEA to produce a user-friendly array of results, based on sound theoretical underpinnings. These range from the measurement of relative efficiencies to quantified suggestions as to how hospitals may improve efficiency, by examining both their own efficiency and that of comparable units. Information is provided both about individual hospitals and the sample as a whole. DEA is also able to distinguish between hospitals demonstrating differing returns to scale. Our findings suggest that, although still very much under development, DEA is usable and, given the weakness of current means of measuring efficiency in the National Health Service, that DEA has a strong claim for further consideration. © 1995 Oxford University Press Part 1: Purchaser Issues nationallicence data envelopment analysis nationallicence production functions nationallicence efficiency nationallicence acute hospitals nationallicence linear programming nationallicence Hollingsworth Bruce Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK aut Parkin David Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK aut Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA Oxford University Press 12/3-4(1995-09), 161-173 1477-8599 12:3-4<161 1995 12 imammb https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.161 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.161 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hollingsworth Bruce Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Parkin David Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA Oxford University Press 12/3-4(1995-09), 161-173 1477-8599 12:3-4<161 1995 12 imammb Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford