Factors affecting efficiency of social security hospitals in Iran: Data envelopment analysis

HealthMED

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1961-1968

  Hatam, Nahid ^a   Pourmohammadi, Kimia ^a   Keshtkaran, Ali ^a   Javanbakht, Mehdi ^a   Askarian, Mehrdad ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis: DEA; Return to scale; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL SERVICE; IRAN; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIAL SECURITY;

EID: 84865468890     PISSN: 18402291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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