Performance assessment indicators: How DEA and Pabon Lasso describe Iranian hospitals' performance

HealthMED

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 791-796

  Marnani, Ahmad Barati ^a   Sadeghifar, Jamil ^a   Pourmohammadi, Kimia ^c   Mostafaie, Davood ^a   Abolhalaj, Masood ^b   Bastani, Peivand ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Faculty member of Ministry of Health and Medical Education   (Estonia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

DEA; Hospital; Pabon Lasso Model; Performance indicator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL CARE; IRAN; PRODUCTIVITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 84859748392     PISSN: 18402291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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