One of the most pressing problems in today's health care system is performance evaluation. Performance evaluation in health care goes well beyond financial and efficiently issues directly to matters of life and death. "Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation" applies the analytical framework of Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to provide health care administrators with specific benchmarking tools for performance evaluation. Most important, the book provides health care practitioners and administrators with information of what is lacking in specific aspects of performance and then outlines the ways how these performance inadequacies can be improved.Professor Ozcan is a professor of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, "Health Care Management Science". He has written a book that will have wide use in the academic and practitioner health care communities. It is a book that will be particularly influential in the application and utility of performance measures in the health care systems worldwide. 
                 
            
            
            
            
                
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Pt. I  Methods   
1  Evaluation of Performance in Health Care  3 
2  Performance Measurement Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)  15 
3  Returns to Scale Models  43 
4  Multiplier Models  57 
5  Non-Oriented and Measure Specific Models  71 
6  Longititudunal (Panel) Evaluations Using DEA  83 
7  Effectiveness and Other Models of DEA  93 
Pt. II  Applications   
8  Hospital Applications  103 
9  Physician Practice and Disease Specific Applications  119 
10  Nursing Home Applications  143 
11  Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Applications  155 
12  Home Health Agency Applications  159 
13  Applications for Other Health Care Organizations  169 
14  Other DEA Applications at Hospital Settings  181 
  References  191 
  Index  199 
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