نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Introduction: Iran's social security organization provides hospital services through direct treatment
system (hospitals owned by the organization) and indirect treatment system (purchasing of hospital
services and other health care services from other providers). The current research aims to assess technical
performance and determine the relationship between activity size and efficiency level of social security
hospitals in Iran.
Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was performed on 65 active social security hospitals that were
selected for Data Envelopment Analysis during the period of 2007–2009. In order to measure the technical
efficiency of hospitals the input-output model and data envelopment analysis (DEA) were used.
Furthermore, statistical tests were used to study the significance of the effect of activity scale on the
efficiency level of the hospitals.
Results: About 28.5% of small scale social security hospitals and 16.2% of large scale social security
hospitals were found to be working with full efficiency. Statistical analysis showed a significant difference
between the mean efficiency of small scale and large scale hospitals (Sig. = 0.029).
Conclusion: It is expected that, through improvement of managerial techniques in efficient input use, the
managerial inefficiency level be reduced by 6%, and a 5% increment be achieved in the output services
scale of hospitals through the efficient use of existing resources.
کلیدواژهها English