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

• Main Authors: Reza Goudarzi (Author), Abolghasem Pourreza (Author), Mostafa Shokoohi (Author), Roohollah Askari (Author), Mahdi Mahdavi (Author), Javad Moghri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Hospitals are highly resource-dependent settings, which spend a large proportion of healthcare financial resources. The analysis of hospital efficiency can provide insight into how scarce resources are used to create health values. This study examines the Technical Efficiency (TE) of 12 t...