The efficiency of general public hospitals in Fars Province, Southern Iran

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-144

  Hatam, N ^a   Moslehi, Sh ^a   Askarian, M ^b   Shokrpour, N ^c   Keshtkaran, A ^a   Abbasi, M ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data development analysis; Economic efficiency; Malmquist; Return to scale; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; IRAN; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL;

EID: 75649113353     PISSN: 20741804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Hatam N. The Role of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) pattern to determine the efficiency in Iran Social Security Organization hospitals. Iranian Red Crescent Med J 2008; 10:208-211.
2. Rajabi A. The role of activity based costing (ABC) system in governmental hospital services in Iran. Iranian Red Crescent Med J 2008; 10:89-94.
3. New Directions in Health Care Policy". Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Health Policy Studies No7, 1995; p. 67.
4. Giokas D. The Use of Goal Programming, Regression Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis for Estimating Efficient Marginal Costs of Hospital Services . Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 2002; 11:261-8. [doi:10.1002/mcda.330]
5. Charles A, Cooper WW, Rhodes E. Measuring Efficiency of Decision-making Units. Eur J Operational Res 1978;3:429-44.
6. Banker RD, Charles A, Cooper WW. Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Efficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis. Management Science 1984;30:1078-92.
7. Mehregan, MohammadM. Quantitative Models for Evaluating Function of Organizations (DEA), Publication of Management Faculty of Tehran University, First Publication, 2004.
8. Health System Performance Assessment. Edited by Murray, C. Evans, D Geneva: WHO, 2003.
9. Hajialiafzali H, Moss, JR, Mahmood MA. Efficiency Measurement for Hospitals Owned by the Irani Social Security Organization. J Med Syst 2007;31:166-72.
10. Organization for Economic cooperation and Development New Direction in Health Care policy. No 7, 1998; pp. 50-97.
11. Organization for Economic cooperation and Development. Health policy studies. "New Direction in Health care policy". No 1, 1983; pp. 82-87.
12. New Brander W, Kutzin J, Barnum H. Hospital Economic and Financing in Developing countries . World Health organization 1992; pp. 1-80 .
13. Kontodimopoulos N. Balancing Efficiency of Health and Equity of Access in Remote Areas in Greece. Health Policy 2005; pp. 72:11.
14. Masiye F. Investigating health system performance: an application of data envelopment analysis to Zambian hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res 2007;7:58. [17459153] [doi:10. 1186/1472-6963-7-58]
15. Renner A, Kirigia JM, Zere EA, Barry SP, Kirigia DG, Kamara C, Muthuri LH. Technical efficiency of peripheral health units in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone: a DEA application. BMC Health Serv Res 2005;5:77. [16354299]
16. Osei D, d'Almeida S, George MO, Kirigia JM, Mensah AO, Kainyu LH. Technical efficiency of public district hospitals and health centres in Ghana: a pilot study. Cost Eff Resour Alloc 2005;3:9. [16188021]
17. Kirigia JM, Sambo LG, Scheel H. Technical efficiency of public clinics in Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa. East Afr Med J 2001;78:S1-13. [12002061]
18. Zere E, Mclntyre D, Addison T. Technical Efficiency and Productivity of Public Sector Hospitals in three South Africa Provinces. South Afr Econom J 2001;69:336-58.
19. Ferrier GD, Valdmanis VG. Peer Effects and Efficiency: The Influence of Competitors' Performance on Hospital Efficiency .Cost Eff Resour Alloc 2005;14:7.
20. Zere E, Mbeeli T, Shangula K, Mandlhate C, Mutirua K, Tjivambi B, Kapenambili W. Technical efficiency of district hospitals: evidence from Namibia using data envelopment analysis. Cost Eff Resour Alloc 2006;4:5. [16566818]
21. Linna M, Häkkinen U, Magnussen J. Comparing hospital cost efficiency between Norway and Finland. Health Policy 2006;77:268-78. [1612 9509] [doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2005. 07.019]
22. Junoy JP. Partitioning Input Cost Efficiency into its Allocate and Technical Components: an Empirical DEA Application to Hospitals. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 2000;34:199-218.