ArticleJournal of clinical laboratory analysis2020
The economic efficiency of clinical laboratories in public hospitals: A case study in Iran.
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- The stochastic frontier analysis technique in measuring the technical and economic efficiency of hospital diagnostic laboratories: a case study in Iran.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2022Article
- Public Health System Economic Efficiency and COVID-19 Resilience: Frontier DEA Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The economic efficiency of clinical laboratories in public hospitals: A case study in Iran.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2020Article
- Defining the Optimal Size of Medical Laboratories at the Primary Level of Health Care with Data Envelopment Analysis: Defining the Efficiency of Medical Laboratories.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionClinical laboratories are identified as one of the most important and expensive units of the health system. Therefore, it is essential to pay attention to these units' cost efficiency. This study purpose was to evaluate the economic efficiency of hospitals' laboratory units affiliated to Urmia University of Medical Sciences (UMSU), in order to assess their performance.
methodsThis research was a descriptive-analytic study that was accomplished in 2017. The statistical population of the study included all of the hospitals' clinical laboratories affiliated to UMSU. Moreover, DEA method and Deap
resultsThe average economic efficiency of clinical laboratories calculated by DEA in 2017 was 0.676. This value was lower than the allocative and technical efficiency scores, which indicates that these units could attain full efficiency by reducing their costs without having any effect on output values. Moreover, about 14 percent of the clinical laboratory units were economically efficient. In addition, it is noteworthy to state that, from total of university hospital laboratories, only three hospitals had no economic excess or deficiency values of inputs.
conclusionConsidering that 76% of laboratory units have not been economically efficient, it is necessary for the laboratory managers to consider optimum allocating of resources, with respect to the cost of laboratory equipment and inputs in order to increase their units' economic efficiency.
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