Hernández SD, García FA

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The need to consider the efficient use of resources is an objective explicitly established by all health services.
Objectives: To determine the technical efficiency and areas of potential improvement of the General Comprehensive Dentistry services in Artemisa province in 2016.
Method: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out at 16 General Comprehensive Stomatology services of Artemisa province in 2016. The algorithm proposed by García A and collaborators was applied, based on the Data Envelopment Analysis technique. Six outcome variables and two resource variables were selected.
Results: It was possible to distinguish the 6 efficient and 10 inefficient services; areas of potential improvement were determined. The results found in terms of areas susceptible to improvement allow us to affirm that in the dentistry activity in Artemisa, the increase in efficiency levels is focused on improving the results with the use of allocated resources.
Conclusions: Differences related to efficiency among general dentistry services in Artemisa province were evidenced, confirming the need to continue and deepen the study of this aspect. The identification of at least one unit among the efficient ones as a reference for each inefficient unit may contribute to the improvement of the management and / or productive processes of the inefficient entities.