{"id":1058,"date":"2022-09-04T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:30:46","slug":"benchmarking-of-covid-19-testing-facilities-a-case-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/2022\/09\/04\/benchmarking-of-covid-19-testing-facilities-a-case-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchmarking of COVID-19 testing facilities: a case in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Severina Pocong Velos, <\/a>Marivel Go, <\/a>Johnry Dayupay, <\/a>Rodolfo Jr Golbin, <\/a>Feliciana Cababat, <\/a>Hazna Qui\u00f1anola, <\/a>Dharyll Prince Mariscal Abellana<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Purpose<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With the aggressive movement towards testing for COVID-19 across the globe, this study aims to shed light on how testing facilities perform in an operational perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design\/methodology\/approach<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With 102 testing facilities in the Philippines, the relative efficiencies of each facility are quantified using a data envelopment analysis technique. Afterwards, a best-worst method was conducted to assign priority weights to each testing facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Findings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Results show that the proposed approach effectively prioritizes testing facilities that most likely have high utilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research limitations\/implications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The findings in this study would be significant to the literature in a number of respects. For one, it reveals results that would stimulate the interest among scholars in a wide variety of disciplines such as management, data mining, policymaking, decision science and epidemiology, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originality\/value<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This study differs from previous works in a number of respects, particularly, in that to the best of the authors\u2019 knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relative efficiencies of COVID-19 testing facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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