From: Estimating technical efficiency of Turkish hospitals: implications for hospital reform initiatives
Variable | Description | Mean | SD | Min | Max |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variables in Frontier Model | |||||
output | Hospital composite output (see Eq. 9) | 14.3 M | 29.0 M | 2885 | 287 M |
bed | Number of inpatient hospital beds | 144 | 215 | 2 | 1816 |
doctors | Number of doctors except residents | 55 | 83 | 1 | 1030 |
clinicians | Number of non-doctor health professionals (nurses, midwives, technicians, etc.) | 174 | 231 | 7 | 2006 |
devices | Number of X-Ray, MR, CT, ECG, Doppler | 12 | 17 | 0 | 458 |
devices_d | Dummy to control for zero-value problem | ||||
admin | Number of administrative staff | 39 | 53 | 1 | 489 |
icubeds | Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Beds | 17 | 25 | 0 | 230 |
icubeds_d | Dummy to control for zero-value problem | ||||
Variables in Inefficiency term model | |||||
type | Hospital ownership type (%) | ||||
MoH General | 42.02 | ||||
MoH Integrated County Hospitals | 11.97 | ||||
MoH Teaching | 3.99 | ||||
Private General | 36.83 | ||||
Private University | 1.21 | ||||
Public University | 3.99 | ||||
income | Per capita income proxied by Regional per capita Gross Domestic Product | ||||
Less than $5000 | 4.36 | ||||
$ 5001–10,000 | 12.64 | ||||
$ 10,001–15,000 | 28.94 | ||||
$ 15,001–20,000 | 39.33 | ||||
$ 20,001 and above | 13.73 | ||||
region | Statistical regions and percent of hospitals in each region | ||||
Istanbul | 15.31 | ||||
West Marmara | 5.94 | ||||
Aegean | 12.8 | ||||
East Marmara | 8.91 | ||||
West Anatolia | 8.91 | ||||
Mediterranean | 11.41 | ||||
Central Anatolia | 5.94 | ||||
West Black Sea | 7.88 | ||||
East Black Sea | 4.92 | ||||
North East Anatolia | 3.53 | ||||
Central East Anatolia | 6.22 | ||||
South East Anatolia | 8.26 |