Assessing efficiency in hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences using Data Envelopement Analysis Method

Necessity to cost manage of hospital as important & operating sector unit of health care system is to gain enough knowledge of economic concepts such as efficiency. The aim of this study was to determine the efficiency in hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences with using Data Envelopement Analysis Method. This descriptive-comparative study, measured the efficiency of 12 hospitals at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, using Data Envelopement Analysis Method. Inputs’ variables consisted of number of physicians, & nursing staff (Scenario 1) plus number of beds, & bed turnover rate (Scenario 2). Outputs’ variables included function of the operating rooms (Situation 1) and the number of discharged patients (Situation 2). Data were collected by obtaining the recorded documents from Medicine deputy and Hospital’s General Information Form and were analyzed using Deep 2.1 software. The lowest mean of technical efficiency in 2013 was 0.048 & in the first semester of 2014, was 0.194. Hospitals’ number 5 and 6 in 2013 & hospitals’ number 1,2 & 3 in the first semester of 2014 had the maximum efficiency. In hospitals with less than 1.000, efficiency, the inefficiencies factors were related to technical & scale efficiency. Therefore, correcting these two efficiencies lead to optimal efficiency. It is recommended, that these hospitals optimize their surplus from original values to achieve the expected optimal efficiency.