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Published on: February 16, 2011
Understanding quality and efficiency of cancer care services from oncologist's perspective
S Cinaroglu1, B Saylan2, S Zararsız2
1Hacettepe University, Associate Professor of Health Care Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (FEAS), Department of Health Care Management, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey.
Objectives:
Enhancing the quality of critical care services requires a comprehending of the elements that contribute to their efficiency. This study proposes a new way of understanding of cancer service quality and efficiency from oncology professionals' perspective by combining crisp and stochastic DEA techniques blended with a fully ranking DEA-AHP approach.
Methods:
Our analysis is based on the analysis of cancer care services efficiency of 81 provinces of Turkey by using indicators of cancer care process, quality of cancer care, general quality of health and cancer care services, development level of provinces, and cancer mortality. Based on the DEA-AHP integrated model with fuzzy AHP weights, provinces located in poor areas are the least efficient in terms of cancer care services. Harmonized crisp and stochastic province-level efficiency analysis serves as a mediator variable to better understand the efficiency of cancer services by using geospatial data in oncology and allows capturing the efficiency dynamics of cancer care.
Results:
The study findings highlight that the least efficient provinces for cancer care services are those that are mainly found in underdeveloped areas.
Conclusion:
Cancer policy makers and oncology professionals should consider the efficiency dynamics of cancer care which acts as a mediator variable to help better understand the efficiency of cancer services through the use of spatial differences in oncology.
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