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Angeliki Flokou, Vassilis Aletras, Dimitris Niakas, Giampiero Favato
The main objective of this study was to apply the non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the efficiency of Greek NHS hospitals between 2009-2013. Hospitals were divided into four separate groups with common characteristics which allowed comparisons to be carried out in the context of…
Tian Tian, Hong Yan, Youli Xu, Reza Rostamzadeh
The development of Happy Farmhouse tourism in China faces significant challenges of homogenized competition and low operational efficiency. This study aims to evaluate the operational efficiency of these farmhouses and compare the performance across three distinct business entity models: individual farmer, farmer…
Jih-Shong Wu, Gilbert Ramirez
As human lifespan increases and the need for elderly care grows, the demand for healthcare services and its associated costs have surged, causing a decline in the operational efficiency of universal healthcare. This has created an imbalance in medical services across different regions, posing a long-standing challenge…
Siripattra Juthamanee, Aimutcha Wattanaburanon, Yuvadee Rodjarkpai, Saowanee Thongnopakun + 1 more
DEA was first used to measure efficiency by Charnes et al. (), building on Farrell’s () productive efficiency ideas. The basic model of DEA is fractional programming (FP), which is difficult to compute. Later, the FP model was modified into linear programming (LP), making it easy to calculate efficiency values. DEA LP…
Bei He, Xiaoyun Du, Junkang Li, Dan Chen + 1 more
Finding solutions to the challenges posed by China’s urbanization is an urgent, pressing global concern. An effective approach for evaluating the ecological well-being performance (EWP) is a guideline for improvement. Most previous studies have focused on the evaluation of EWP efficiency without considering the…
Zohreh Shaker, Zainab Shaker, Mohsen Barouni, Asma Sabermahani
Background Medical diagnostic laboratories are an essential work environment that plays an important role in diagnosing, treating, and being sensitive to diseases. One way to evaluate laboratories’ performance is to calculate their efficiency. This study investigates the efficiency of laboratories that are related to…
Paschal N. Mujasi, Eyob Z. Asbu, Jaume Puig-Junoy
Background Hospitals represent a significant proportion of health expenditures in Uganda, accounting for about 26 % of total health expenditure. Improving the technical efficiency of hospitals in Uganda can result in large savings which can be devoted to expand access to services and improve quality of care. This paper…
Siamak Aghlmand, Sadegh Feizollahzadeh, Behrouz Fathi, Hasan Yusefzadeh + 1 more
'Hasan Yusefzadeh' 'Mina Alinejhad'] An inefficient health system wastes scarce resources even if it makes considerable gains in accountability and equity. Such a system is expected to perform better. Therefore, it is vital to examine the current performance of health systems and their constituents and assess how to…
Saif Ullah, Abdul Majeed, József Popp, Yuriy Bilan
envelopment analysis approach Determinants of bank’s efficiency in an emerging economy Authors: ['Saif Ullah' 'Abdul Majeed' 'József Popp' 'Yuriy Bilan'] This study aims to assess the influence of internal and external factors on the Efficiency of banks in Pakistan using the Data Envelopment Analysis Approach (DEA).…
M. Zulfakhar Zubir, A. Azimatun Noor, A. M. Mohd Rizal, A. Aziz Harith + 4 more
'A. Aziz Harith' 'M. Ihsanuddin Abas' 'Zuriyati Zakaria' 'Anwar Fazal A. Bakar' 'André Ramalho'] The efficiency and productivity evaluation process commonly employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a performance tool in numerous fields, such as the healthcare industry (hospitals). Therefore, this review examined…
Hasan Yusefzadeh, Hossein Ghaderi, Rafat Bagherzade, Mohsen Barouni
Background Hospitals are the most costly and important components of any health care system, so it is important to know their economic values, pay attention to their efficiency and consider factors affecting them. Objective The aim of this study was to assess the technical scale and economic efficiency of hospitals in…
Vlasta Sikimić, Sandro Radovanović
As more objections have been raised against grant peer-review for being costly and time-consuming, the legitimate question arises whether machine learning algorithms could help assess the epistemic efficiency of the proposed projects. As a case study, we investigated whether project efficiency in high energy physics…
Noah J. Miller, Jason S. Bergtold, Allen M. Featherstone, Dao-Zhi Zeng
'Dao-Zhi Zeng'] The use of elasticities of substitution between inputs is a standard method for addressing the effect of a change in the mix of inputs used for production from a technical or cost standpoint. Most estimation methods use parametric production or cost functions or frontiers to estimate these elasticities.…
Oksana Mulesa, Ivanna Dronyuk, Yong Deng
The aim of this study is to develop a convenient and effective entropy analysis method for assessing the efficiency of workload distribution among medical institution personnel. This research is based on a model for evaluating employee workload in conditional time units-credits-taking into account time-and-motion…
Zhen Shi, Shijiong Qin, Chenjun Zhang, Yung-ho Chiu + 1 more
China’s economy in recent decades has developed at a very rapid speed, as evidenced by its GDP jumping to second place in the world. Although utilization of domestic water resources has helped spur economic development, sewage discharge as an undesirable output has unfortunately caused many negative effects on human…
Liyang Yang, Nan Zhu, Huiru Bai, Simone Luongo
This study is designed to delve into the efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) of tourism enterprises, aiming to uncover the sources of variation in these metrics. To meet this objective, we have employed the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach and the Luenberger index-making it the inaugural application…
Taeyoung Jin, Jinsoo Kim
The demand for energy has been increasing significantly worldwide. Consequently, carbon emissions have accelerated, since energy usage involves carbon dioxide. Given that the available energy has quantitative restriction feature, efficient usage of energy becomes crucial. Energy efficiency is expected to improve over…