Abstract

ARIAS GALINDO, Yeick Exneider  and  RAMIREZ URRAYA, Agustín. Hospital efficiency in Colombian regions where corruption is evident by means of DEA technique. Podium [online]. 2021, n.39, pp.83-102.  Epub June 28, 2021. ISSN 2588-0969.  https://doi.org/10.31095/podium.2021.39.6.

Efficiency is an important issue when analyzing the public sector, and of greater interest in the health sector. This study purports to identify level I public hospitals´ efficiency in the Córdoba, Sucre and Valle del Cauca departments, given their high corruption perception and thereby locate them in quartiles. A database was obtained with 612 records from level I public hospitals in the 32 Republic of Colombia departments; they were filtered under corruption perception criteria. An empirical study was carried out using data envelopment analysis -DEA-. As a result, the most efficient hospitals are in the Córdoba department and the least efficient are in the Valle del Cauca department.

Keywords : Colombia; hospital efficiency; data enveloping analysis; health sector; public hospital; corruption perception.

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