In this study, besides the efficiency levels of 600 general hospitals currently active in Turkey, their congestion and slacks have also been calculated. Moreover, welfare losses due to the existence of congestion and slacks have been determined. The present study, above all, constitutes a sample case about the possibility that the slacks can occur in DEA even when in an entirely efficient state. As a result, the hospitals affiliated to the Social Security Institute (SSK in Turkish) have been found out to be the most efficient and the private hospitals have been found to take the second order while the hospitals operating under the Ministry of Health have taken the third order. Considering all the hospitals altogether, the total welfare loss has been calculated to be $94.523.320.
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