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Table 5 Summary statistics for output elements and corresponding price indices

From: Estimating technical efficiency of Turkish hospitals: implications for hospital reform initiatives

Variable

Description

Mean

SD

Min

Max

Price index

operations

Number of annual surgical operationsa

Type A

332

667

0

6485

266.53

Type B

1190

1887

0

14,757

75.73

Type C

1797

2490

0

20,611

37.60

Type D

1639

2776

0

25,107

23.13

Type E

2921

7284

0

109,748

11.07

icubeds

Number of beds in the ICU units

Adult level 1

70,254

163,681

0

1,617,388

16.67

Adult level 2

75,591

175,739

0

2,385,640

30.00

Adult level 3

117,145

316,273

0

3,403,698

50.00

Neonatal level 1

16,690

64,281

0

903,375

16.67

Neonatal level 2

28,028

95,935

0

1,151,502

30.00

Neonatal level 3

52,077

160,709

0

1,292,319

50.00

Pediatric

11,885

66,458

0

949,000

30.00

inpatient

Number of inpatient-day (inpatient bed) utilization at each hospital.

 

33,072

58,193

0

470,287

1.00

Rate

Average percentage of daily occupancy rates of the beds at the ICU units.

Adult

32.18

34.07

0

100

na

Neonatal

19.22

30.95

0

100

na

Pediatric

3.39

15.79

0

100

na

delivery

Number of annual child deliveries

Normal

328

589

0

7381

6.67

Operation

22

107

0

1595

12.00

C-section

396

527

0

4692

12.00

Tech

Number of annual utilization of the diagnostics equipment

ECG

365

601

0

5352

4.80

MR

653

1047

0

7371

4.80

BT

701

1244

0

10,220

4.00

Doppler

2120

6172

0

180,153

2.00

X-ray

4044

6324

0

54,205

1.00

Visits

Number of annual visits to

ER

75,351

90,152

0

736,292

1.00

Doctors

267,580

320,679

1685

2,405,443

1.00

  1. “na” - not applicable
  2. aSurgical operations are classified into groups A to E based on the severity of the operations