BACKGROUND This study aimed to measure the hospital productivity using data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique and Malmquist indices. METHODS This is a cross sectional study in which the panel data were used in a 4 year period from 2007 to 2010. The research was implemented in 12 teaching and non-teaching hospitals of Ahvaz County. Data envelopment analysis technique and the Malmquist indic...

This paper analyses the productivity growth of the SUMA tax offices located in Spain evolved between 2004 and 2006 by using Malmquist Index based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. It goes a step forward by smoothed bootstrap procedure which improves the quality of the results by generalising the samples, so that the conclusions obtained from them can be applied in order to increase pro...

The study analyzed the maize Total Factor Productivity growth using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based on Malmquist Index in Nigerian. Factors that affect maize total factor productivity growth were also identified using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method. The study used secondary annual data for the period from 19712010 in order to attain the objective. The result revealed that for the fort...

This paper evaluates the impact of varying implementation of electronic lab order entry management (eLAB) system strategies on hospitals’ productivity in the short run. Using the American Hospital Association's Annual Surveys for 2005–2008, we developed hospital productivity measures to assess facilities’ relative performances upon implementing eLAB systems. The results indicate that different ...

In some data envelopment analysis (DEA) applications, some inputs of DMUs have negative values with positive cost. This paper generalizes the global cost Malmquist productivity index to compare the productivity of dierent DMUs with negative inputs in any two periods of times under variable returns to scale (VRS) technology, and then the generalized index is decomposed to several components. The...

in many real applications, the data of production processes can't be precisely measured.we develop some fuzzy versions of the classical dea models (in particular, the ccrmodel) by using some ranking methods based on the comparison of cuts. our approachescan be seen as an extension of the dea methodology. the provides users and practitionerswith models which represent some real life processes mo...

in many real applications, the data of production processes can't be precisely measured.we develop some fuzzy versions of the classical dea models (in particular, the ccrmodel) by using some ranking methods based on the comparison of cuts. our approachescan be seen as an extension of the dea methodology. the provides users and practitionerswith models which represent some real life process...