Table 2.
Efficiencies of different types of hospitals obtained by three methods (2009–2011)
| Year | Type of hospital | RA | SFA | DEA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index screening | Principal component | Index screening | Principal component | |||
| 2009 | Specialized hospitals | 1.560 | 0.818 | 0.854 | 0.874 | 0.918 |
| General hospitals | 1.558 | 0.839 | 0.856 | 0.881 | 0.913 | |
| TCM hospitals | 2.362 | 0.797 | 0.838 | 0.806 | 0.854 | |
| 2010 | Specialized hospitals | 3.489 | 0.842 | 0.850 | 0.884 | 0.564 |
| General hospitals | 1.329 | 0.856 | 0.851 | 0.884 | 0.348 | |
| TCM hospitals | 1.518 | 0.810 | 0.844 | 0.841 | 0.440 | |
| 2011 | Specialized hospitals | 2.313 | 0.825 | 0.870 | 0.837 | 0.910 |
| General hospitals | 1.518 | 0.845 | 0.882 | 0.864 | 0.902 | |
| TCM hospitals | 2.165 | 0.812 | 0.897 | 0.751 | 0.842 | |
RA: Ratio analysis; SFA: Stochastic frontier analysis; DEA: Data envelopment analysis, TCM hospitals: Traditional Chinese medicine hospitals.