A systematic review on hospital inefficiency in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: sources and solutions

Abstract 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 limit avoidable uses of hospital resources, it is important to identify the sources of hospital inef...

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Main Authors: Hamid Ravaghi, Mahnaz Afshari, Parvaneh Isfahani, Victoria D. Bélorgeot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-019-4701-1