A system for evaluating inpatient care cost-efficiency in a hospital

The cost-efficiency evaluation is one important aspect in the health care organization performance assessment. This paper introduces the ratio of exact cost to Relative Intensity Weights, cost per case weight, as one indicator. A statistical approach for cost-efficiency analyses is presented in this paper. The analyses would be done at the population level and patient level. The linkage between population and individual patients provides the capability to review the distributions of several cost-efficiency measures and to do further studies, including factor adjustment. A well established health care data warehouse is to accomplish a timely and evaluation of the cost-efficiency in hospital.