BACKGROUND:The patients' health care choice is diverting from the private health provider to the public hospital due to introduction of various
schemes and incentives by the policy makers. The limited resources are posing a challenge to the hospital administrator in escalating demands,
diversity and complexity of diseases of patients. The hospital performance enhances steadily by the monitoring authorities' surveillance. It is an
effective method for improving quality care in the public hospital. The Hawthorne effect is a term referring to the tendency of people to work harder
and increases in effectiveness of organization when they are being observed.
OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the performance of a teaching hospital during surveillance by calculating the hospital indices, using the Pabon
Losso Model.
2. To evaluate whether the Hawthorne effect is the cause of the increase in the effectiveness of hospital.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was a prospective and record based cross-sectional study and conducted at Government teaching
hospital over a period of 18 months.
RESULTS: st A total of 18 months period census report was recorded from January 2016 to June 2017and hospital indices were estimated. The 1
phase of surveillance (January- 2016 to May -2016), where immense supervision was present, with performance feed- back, BOR was 88.65,
nd ALOS was 3.932, BTR was 7.074 and BTI was 0.54, 2 phase of surveillance which was intensied with communication and committee meetings
rd (June-2016 to October- 2016), BOR was 95.59, ALOS was 3.49, BTR was 7.03 and BTI was 0.886, 3 phase weaning period, where a little
th supervision (November -2016 to February-2017) BOR was 87.8, ALOS was 4.1, BTR was 6.413 and BTI was 0.5725 and 4 phase self sustain
stage or no observations phase, BOR was 92.6, ALOS was 3.47, BTR was 6.547 and BTI was 0.28.
CONCLUSION: The surveillance of higher authorities over the hospital had increased the performance. Hospital efciency is reected by
increased hospital indices. The cause and effect is the “Hawthorne effect”. Therefore it is concluded that the surveillance increases the performance
and efciency of the public hospitals.