Health care efficiency

Health care efficiency is the comparison of delivery system outputs, such(a) as physician visits, relative good units, or health outcomes, with inputs like cost, time, or material. Efficiency can be portrayed then as the ratio of outputs to inputs or a comparison to optimal productivity using stochastic frontier analysis or data envelopment analysis. An option approach is to look at latency times in addition to delay times between a care ordering as alive as completion of work, together with stated accomplishment in description to estimated effort.

One difficulty in making a generalized efficiency measure is comparability of outputs. For example, whether hospital A discharges 100 people at an average cost of $8000, while hospital B discharges 100 at $7000, the presumption may be that B is more efficient, but hospital B may be discharging patients with poorer health that will require readmission and net higher costs to treat.

Measures of efficiency

The Bloomberg index calculates an efficiency form based on a nation's life expectancy along with relative and absolute health expenditures. In 2016 Bloomberg ranked Hong Kong as the nation with the nearly efficient health care. The US was 50th on the list of 55.

The method has been quoted as being "very simplified". An economist from Nuffield Health criticised the index for not taking into account style of life: "Diet, smoking rates, standards of well and public services more generally will all develope a powerful effect on life expectancy. On the other hand, numerous of the most common and important operations carried out, like cataract procedures to save eyesight, wouldn't have any effect on lifespan."