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Table 5 Comparison of Assab hospital with its efficiency reference set hospitals

From: Technical and scale efficiency of public community hospitals in Eritrea: an exploratory study

Efficiency reference set hospitals

Outputs

Inputs

 

OPD visits

Discharges

Doctors

Nurses

Laboratory technicians

Beds

Afabet [A]

13652a x 0.316b = 4314.032

742a x 0.316b = 234.472

1a x 0.316b = 0.316

17a x 0.316b = 5.372

3a x 0.316b = 0.948

47a x 0.316b = 14.852

Sembel [B]

39451a x 0.251b = 9902.201

2996a x 0.251b = 751.996

2a x 0.251b = 0.502

81a x 0.251b = 20.331

2a x 0.251b = 0.502

103a x 0.251b = 25.853

Aquardat [C]

17930a x 0.313b = 5612.09

4356a x 0.313b = 1363.428

6a x 0.313b = 1.878

31a x 0.313b = 9.703

4a x 0.313b = 1.252

78a x 0.313b = 24.414

Edaga Hamus [D]

13307a x 0.057b = 758.499

1075a x 0.057b = 61.275

0a x 0.057b = 0

73a x 0.057b = 4.161

3a x 0.057b = 0.171

12a x 0.057b = 0.684

Tio [E]

5681a x 0.063b = 357.903

650a x 0.063b = 40.95

0a x 0.063b = 0

7a x 0.063b = 0.441

2a x 0.063b = 0.126

35a x 0.063b = 2.205

Composite hospital [F=A+B+C+D+E]

20944.725

2452.121

2.696

40.008

2.999

68.008

Assab [G]

15518

1818

5

40

3

68

Output increase or input reduction [H=F-G]

5426.725

634.121

−2.304

0.008

−0.001

0.008

% Change [I=(H/G)*100]

34.97

34.88

−46.08

0.02

−0.03

0.01

  1. Note: superscript ‘a’ = Actual output and input quantities; superscript ‘b’ = Lambda weights from DEA.