Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation: An Assessment using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) - Hardcover

Yasar A. Ozcan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387754474 ISBN 13: 9780387754475

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

Hugely relevant in today’s world of healthcare performance management, this comprehensive work applies the analytical framework of Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to provide health care administrators with specific 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.

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From the Back Cover

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 importantly, 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.

Dr. 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.

 

About the Author

Yasar A. Ozcan is professor of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Ozcan is editor-in-chief of Journal of Health Care Management Science and past president of the Health Care Applications Section of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0387754474
• ISBN 13: 9780387754475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243