Do technically efficient surgeons continue to provide active clinical services in a university hospital?

Yoshinori Nakata, Yuichi Watanabe, Hiroshi Otake and Akihiko Ozaki

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 7, 1-8

Abstract: It is difficult for university hospitals to recruit and retain technically efficient surgeons because their missions include teaching and research as well as clinical services. The authors hypothesized that technically efficient surgeons do not continue to provide active clinical services in a university hospital. The authors collected data from all the surgical procedures performed at Teikyo University Hospital from April 1 through September 30 in 2013–2018. The dependent variable was defined as a length of each surgeon’s active clinical services measured by month. Data envelopment analysis was employed to calculate each surgeon’s technical efficiency score. Five control variables were selected; experience, medical school, surgical volume, gender, and academic ranks. Multiple regression analysis was performed. Efficiency scores had significantly negative association with length of active clinical services. Experience and surgical volume had significantly positive association with length of active clinical services. The other coefficients of control variables were insignificant. Technically efficient surgeons provide shorter active clinical services in a university hospital.

Date: 2021
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