Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the input and output variables
From: Measuring efficiency of governmental hospitals in Palestine using stochastic frontier analysis
Variable | Hospital average value per year | Hospital median value per year | Standard deviation | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of beds | 120 | 101 | 106 | 10 | 509 |
Number of doctors | 90 | 53 | 119 | 11 | 652 |
Number of nurses | 119 | 95 | 93 | 2 | 436 |
Number of non-medical staff | 152 | 115 | 115 | 25 | 537 |
Total staff | 361 | 282 | 311 | 47 | 1561 |
Number of admitted patients | 14,045 | 9348 | 12,171 | 294 | 55,519 |
Average length of stay (ALOS) | 2.4 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 5.1 |
Number of hospital days | 33,896 | 23,180 | 31,465 | 895 | 150,486 |
Number of operations | 3357 | 1785 | 4445 | 0 | 26,516 |
Number of outpatient visits | 99,765 | 78,444 | 103,578 | 11,169 | 539,914 |