Quality criterion in measuring the efficiency of health facilities

The paper describes one of the most popular methods of estimating the efficiency of health facilities – DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). We highlight its practical and important role in examining the efficiency of health facilities. At the same time (by adopting a critical approach to the method-ology), we propose to expand it with an additional quality dimension. The DEA method, enriched with the quality dimension, completes the notion of efficiency of a health facility and provides an effective measure for assessing a health facility’s performance. The proposed approach is new and it bridges the gap observed in the approach to investigating into the efficiency of health facilities.