Technical Efficiency of Teaching Hospitals in Iran: The Use of Stochastic Frontier Analysis, 1999–2011

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Reza Goudarzi · Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Abolghasem Pourreza · Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Mostafa Shokoohi · Kerman University of Medical Sciences

Roohollah Askari · Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Mahdi Mahdavi · Erasmus University Rotterdam

Javad Moghri · Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Abstract

Findings of this study show a remarkable waste of resources in the TUMS hospital during the decade considered. This warrants policy-makers and top management in TUMS to consider steps to improve the financial management of the university hospitals.

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Efficiency Analysis Using DEA Global Health Care Issues Healthcare Policy and Management

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Published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 91-97

DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2014.66

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Technical Efficiency of Teaching Hospitals in Iran: The Use of Stochastic Frontier Analysis, 1999–2011

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