Various indicators for the assessment of hospitals' performance status: Differences and similarities

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Lotfi, Farhad ^a   Kalhor, Rohollah ^b,c   Bastani, Peivand ^d   Shaarbafchi Zadeh, Nasrin ^a,e   Eslamian, Maryam ^f,g   Reza Dehghani, Mohammad ^h   Zakaria Kiaee, Mohamad ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HORMOZGAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^h SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

DEA; Hospital performance; Malmquist index; Pabon lasso

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE RATIO; LENGTH OF STAY; PABON LASSO MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901252279     PISSN: 20741804     EISSN: 20741812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/ircmj.12950     Document Type: Article

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