In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Background Evaluating hospital efficiency is a process to optimize resource utilization and
allocation. This is vital due to hospitals being the largest financial cost in a health system. To …

Background 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 …

Objective In this study, we assess the performance of public hospitals in Saudi Arabia. We
detect the sources of inefficiency and estimate the optimal levels of the resources that …

Objective Despite an extensive literature on efficiency, qualitative evidence on the drivers of
hospital efficiency is scant. This study examined the factors that influence the efficiencies of …

Background The assessment of hospital efficiency is attracting interest worldwide,
particularly in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The objective of this study was to …

Background: One of the basic steps to quality improvement in hospitals is to obtain patients'
feedback. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the quality of hospital services …

Objectives Defensive medicine (DM) is the deviation of a physician from normal behavior or
what is a good practice and is aimed at reducing or avoiding the risk of legal litigation from …

To aid informed health sector decision-making, data from sufficient high quality economic
evaluations must be available to policy makers. To date, no known study has analysed the …

The recent drop in oil prices has challenged public sector financing in Kuwait. Technical and
scale efficiency scores for fifteen public hospitals in Kuwait from 2010 to 2014 were …