The functionality comparison of the health care systems by the analytical hierarchy process method

Day surgery is one of the areas that are still not implemented in Slovakia in the intentions of finding economic savings in the health care system. The primary objective to use day surgery to separate the patients with lighter chirurgical procedure, to less traumatize the patients with , to protect the patient from nosocomial infections and to make recovery easier in comfort of the own home. The primary impulse for dealing with the effectiveness of health systems, with an emphasis on day surgery, were conflicting responses regarding the and effectiveness of deployment and use of day surgery performance. On the one hand, find the direct and indirect evidence of functional application of day surgery performance in facilities in Slovakia and its potential benefits in achieving the aims of health policy of the . On the other hand there are critical responses on lack of the effects of the day surgery use, are associated with low valuation of stated procedures which are inadequate to the real . It hinders its development in comparison with the development abroad. The main aim of this is to compare the functionality of day surgery care in comparison with the system orientated traditional hospitalization, using the opinion of the experts who represent the system of health in Slovakia. For orientation in criteria characterizing the functionality of health care systems in , we started from the premise that the functionality of health care system is a basis of its . Given the considerable heterogeneity of compared criteria of health care systems have chosen the method of Analytical Hierarchy Process as the optimal method, supported by expert group method.