7 results match your criteria: "Teikyo University Medical Information and System Research Center[Affiliation]"
Surgical productivity recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
Front Public Health
February 2024
Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Jyoban Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical productivity in Japan, building on previous research that noted a decline in 2020.
- Using data from 18,805 surgical procedures over seven years, the authors applied a specific model to analyze productivity metrics like efficiency and technical change.
- The findings indicated no significant differences in surgical productivity, efficiency, or technical changes when comparing the pre-pandemic and post-pandemic periods.
Surgical productivity did not suffer despite the states of emergency against the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: a retrospective observational study.
BMC Health Serv Res
October 2022
Department of Surgery, Jyoban Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
Article Synopsis
- This study aimed to assess how states of emergency due to COVID-19 affected the total factor productivity of surgical procedures in Japan, using the Malmquist index for measurement.
- Data was collected from Teikyo University Hospital's surgical procedures over a period from April 2019 to September 2021, considering inputs like the number of doctors and surgery duration, and the output as surgical fees.
- The findings revealed that surgical productivity and efficiency remained largely unchanged during both states of emergency and normal conditions, indicating that the pandemic did not negatively impact surgical productivity.
Effect of surgeon experience on technical efficiency.
Health Serv Manage Res
February 2023
Department of Anesthesia, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to explore the relationship between surgeons' technical efficiency and their years of experience, hypothesizing that efficiency would improve with experience only up to a certain point before declining.
- - Researchers analyzed data from 20,375 surgeries performed by 264 surgeons over 42 months, measuring efficiency using a model that considered factors like assistants and operation time, and controlled for variables like surgical specialty and volume.
- - Results showed that neither the experience nor its squared term significantly impacted technical efficiency, indicating that the relationship between surgeon experience and efficiency is not concave as previously thought.
Equality of Surgical Fee Schedule in Japan: A Retrospective Observational Study.
Health Serv Insights
October 2021
Department of Anesthesia, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Article Synopsis
- The study examined inequality in the Japanese surgical fee schedule, which has historically been unequal among different surgical specialties, despite revisions.
- Researchers analyzed efficiency scores from surgical data at Teikyo University Hospital between 2013 and 2018, using inputs like number of assistants and operation duration to assess performance.
- The Gini coefficients, which measure inequality, showed no statistically significant changes over the years or between different fee schedules, indicating that inequality in surgical fees remained constant throughout the study period.
Efficiency of inpatient orthopedic surgery in Japan: a medical claims database analysis.
Int J Health Care Qual Assur
July 2017
Teikyo University Medical Information and System Research Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the characteristics of healthcare facilities that produce the most efficient inpatient orthopedic surgery using a large-scale medical claims database in Japan. Design/methodology/approach Reimbursement claims data were obtained from April 1 through September 30, 2014. Input-oriented Banker-Charnes-Cooper model of data envelopment analysis (DEA) was employed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe goal of this study was to examine the current Japanese surgical payment system from the viewpoint of resource utilization. We collected data from surgical records in Teikyo University's electronic medical record system from April 1 through September 30, 2013. We defined the decision-making unit as a surgeon with the highest academic rank in the surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The goal of this study was to calculate total factor productivity of surgeons in an academic year and to evaluate the effect of surgical trainees on their productivity.
Study Design: We analyzed all the surgical procedures performed from April 1 through September 30, 2013 in the Teikyo University Hospital. The nonradial and nonoriented Malmquist model under the variable returns-to-scale assumptions was employed.