In this study, the use of dea in the health care environment is being considered because of the widespread interest in improving the performance of health care institutions and in reducing the costs of their services. At the same time, there is evidence that the incentives for improved health care organization efficiency are minimal due to the revenue or costs reimbursement systems, and there is also evidence that inefficiencies exist among a sizeable percentage of these institutions and particularly hospitals. Other techniques used to evaluate efficiency of heatlh care organizations including ratio analysis and regression analysis ahve been found to have serious limitation 14] so that.dea represents a new and possibly superior alternative which we con sider in this study.

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