The Clinic Efficiency of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Taiwan

Most of studies were measuring the efficiency of hospitals in the past. The way of measuring efficiency base on the unit of hospital, and itwas difficu lt for measuring the efficiency of each department in hospital. Besides, the situation of each hospital is differentfrom the same department in other hospital. The research data in this study was obtained from National Health Insurance Database in 2008. The main research methodology was data envelopment analysis (DEA). The out-patient services efficiency measuring model with examination fee, drugs fee, and the number of dosing days as input, and the number of t reatment as output was applied in this study. The admission servicesefficiency measuring model with examination fee, drugs fee, and days of hospitalizat ion as output, and the number of t reatmentas output was applied in this study. This study measure the efficiency of public hospitals, university hospitals, army hospitals, private hospitals, and religious hospitals based on these two models. After all, No matter the out-patient services or the admission services of department of obstetrics and gynecology, the efficiency of public hospitals, university hospitals, army hospitals, private hospitals, and religious hospitals are not the same. The average of efficiency score of university hospital is better than other type of hospitals. Most of benchmark hospitals areprivate hospitals. For these inefficiency hospitals, they could learn how to improve efficiency of department of obstetrics and gynecology from these benchmark hospitals.