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 increased homogeneity. The window-DEA method was chosen since it leads to increased...

background: due to the increasing health care costs, the issue of productivity in hospitals must be taken into great consideration in order to provide, preserve and promote public health services. thus, increasing the level of productivity must become the main aim of any hospital. objective of this study is to determine the total factor productivity and its components over the period under the ...

in this study, different methods of separating of the microalgae from the culture medium as one of the most important and expensive steps in achieving commercial production of biodiesel from microalgae was investigated. electro coagulation-flotation (ecf) was preferred among these methods due to its process simplicity and capability to scale up. the effect of three parameters, i.e., initial ph,...

since the difference in productivity growth rates in different provinces is a result of regional inequality, efficiency criteria in the development of regional-scale agricultural activities is beneficial. therefore it is important that long-term movements in the provinces to identify differences in productivity levels to take effective measures such as investment more in infrastructure, researc...

Based on stochastic frontier analysis and translog input distance function, this paper examines the total factor energy efficiency of China’s industry using input-output data of 30 subindustries from 2002 to 2014, and decomposes the changes in estimated total factor energy efficiency into the effects of technical change, technical efficiency change, scale efficiency change and inputmix effect. ...

background hospitals are highly resource-dependent settings, which spend a large proportion of healthcare financial resources. the analysis of hospital efficiency can provide insight into how scarce resources are used to create health values. this study examines the technical efficiency (te) of 12 teaching hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences (tums) between 1999 and 2...

This study presents an evaluation of the relative efficiency of sixteen container ports in Sub-Sahara Africa using three DEA models namely CCR, BCC and Super-Efficiency over the year 2012. The CCR and BCC models are used to estimate the technical and scale efficiency while the super-efficiency technique provides a ranking of efficient ports. The efficiency results indicate that on average the i...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a non-parametric approach for performance analysis of decision making units (dmus) which uses a set of inputs to produce a set of outputs without the need to consider internal operations of each unit. in recent years, there have been various studies dealt with two-stage production systems, i.e. systems which consume some inputs in their first stage to produce ...

The efficiency of social housing providers is a contentious issue. In the Netherlands, there is a widespread belief that housing corporations have substantial potential for efficiency improvements. A related question is whether scale influences efficiency, since recent decades have shown a trend of mergers among corporations. This paper offers a framework to assess the effects of scale and merg...