Measuring the Relative Efficiency Health Care Hospitals Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Technique

A hospital, as an economic unit for optimum use of available recourses, is forced to utilizing efficiency analysis. To have high efficiency via best use of facilities, guarantees the success of hospitals in achieving their objects. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used as a research tool for operation analysis of technical efficiency. In this research this technique has been used in order to measure the relative efficiency health care of 16 hospitals related to Shahid Beheshti University- Medical Sciences, and also ranking efficient hospitals for the years 1384-1386. Research findings indicate, 43.75 percent of hospitals in 1384, 31.25 percent in 1385 and 37.5 percent in 1386 were efficient. The results lead to suggestions for improving efficiency of inefficient hospitals through the potential resources savings in the Area 62.44 percent in infrastructure, 43.88 percent in the number of active beds, 37.15 percent in the number of physicians and 38.58 percent in the number of paramedics.