Frontier-based techniques in measuring hospital efficiency in Iran: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis.

Summary, in English

In recent years, there has been growing interest in measuring the efficiency of hospitals in Iran and several studies have been conducted on the topic. The main objective of this paper was to review studies in the field of hospital efficiency and examine the estimated technical efficiency (TE) of Iranian hospitals.

• Author: Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri; Mehdi Jafari; Ulf Gerdtham
• Department/s: Health Economics; Department of Economics; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2013
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: BMC Health Services Research
• Volume: 13
• Issue: Aug.,15
• Full text: - 426 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23945011?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-312
• Document type: Journal article review
• Publisher: BioMed Central (BMC)
• Topic: Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
• Status: Published
• Research group: Health Economics
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1472-6963