Abstract
In order to optimize the allocation of health resources and promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), this research employs the China Health Statistics Yearbook 2018 to collect relevant data on TCM hospitals in 2017, and the DEA method is used to construct a BCC model for the evaluation of service efficiency of these hospitals in 30 provinces (including autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) across the country. It is found that TCM hospitals in non-effective DEA provinces are not operating efficiently, with excessive investment in institutions, beds, and health staff, and insufficient output of visits, bed utilization, and the average length of stay. Given this, attention to promoting the service capacity and efficiency of TCM hospitals should be paid on the following aspects: scientific allocation of health resource, strengthened external policy control, improved internal management of hospitals, optimized characteristic services and establishment of scientific evaluation system.
Highlights
Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to the cause of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and has dedicated to improving the capacity of TCM services
Through literature studies and summaries, the input indicators are identified as the number of institutions, beds and the number of health staff in TCM hospitals, and the output indicators are the number of hospital visits, discharges, bed utilization rate and the average length of stay
The health resource allocation efficiency of TCM hospitals in 30 provinces in 2017 are found out through calculating the selected input indicators and output indicators within the BCC model constructed with the use of DEAP2.1
Summary
Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to the cause of TCM and has dedicated to improving the capacity of TCM services. For TCM hospitals being important vehicles for the provision of TCM services in China, its service efficiency provided is directly related to the development of TCM. Based on the statistics of TCM hospitals in 30 provinces (including autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) in 2017, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to analyze the service efficiency of TCM hospitals in each province, and provide decision references for optimizing the allocation of health resources and improving the service efficiency. The research data, deriving from the 2018 China Statistical Yearbook of Health, has excerpted the relevant statistics of TCM hospitals in 30 provinces in 2017, including autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government. Tibet Autonomous Region is not included in this study for its lack of TCM hospital
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