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Correction: Hong Kong Hospital Authority resource efficiency evaluation: Via a novel DEA-Malmquist model and Tobit regression model
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 2, p e0193266 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018.
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Abstract
- The Hospital Authority (HA) is a statutory body managing all the public hospitals and institutes in Hong Kong (HK). In recent decades, Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HKHA) has been making efforts to improve the healthcare services, but there still exist some problems like unfair resource allocation and poor management, as reported by the Hong Kong medical legislative committee. One critical consequence of these problems is low healthcare efficiency of hospitals, leading to low satisfaction among patients. Moreover, HKHA also suffers from the conflict between limited resource and growing demand. An effective evaluation of HA is important for resource planning and healthcare decision making. In this paper, we propose a two-phase method to evaluate HA efficiency for reducing healthcare expenditure and improving healthcare service. Specifically, in Phase I, we measure the HKHA efficiency changes from 2000 to 2013 by applying a novel DEA-Malmquist index with undesirable factors. In Phase II, we further explore the impact of some exogenous factors (e.g., population density) on HKHA efficiency by Tobit regression model. Empirical results show that there are significant differences between the efficiencies of different hospitals and clusters. In particular, it is found that the public hospital serving in a richer district has a relatively lower efficiency. To a certain extent, this reflects the socioeconomic reality in HK that people with better economic condition prefers receiving higher quality service from the private hospitals.
- Subjects :
- Viral Diseases
Asia
Death Rates
Economics
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Geographical locations
Health Economics
Population Metrics
Medicine and Health Sciences
lcsh:Science
Demography
Population Density
SARS
Health Care Policy
Multidisciplinary
Population Biology
lcsh:R
Biology and Life Sciences
Hospitals
Health Care
Infectious Diseases
Health Care Facilities
Geriatrics
People and Places
Hong Kong
lcsh:Q
Research Article
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5de70dd301e7fc77e98c7d3d0ec660e3