The Taiwan Quality Indicator Project (TQIP) is a quality management program that measures and monitors the healthcare quality of hospitals in Taiwan. This paper examines the impact of TQIP participation on hospital productivity growth with the application of the Malmquist productivity change index based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). Analyzing operations data from 31 TQIP regional hospital...

This study divides a production system into three components: production design, demand support, and operations. Efficiency is then decomposed via network data envelopment analysis and integrated into the Malmquist Productivity Index framework to develop a more detailed decomposition of productivity change. The proposed model can identify the demand effect and the identity of the root cause of ...

BACKGROUND China began to implement the national medical and health system and public hospital reforms in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Anhui Province is one of the four pilot provinces, and the medical reform measures received wide attention nationwide. The effectiveness of the above reform needs to get attention. This study aimed to master the efficiency and productivity of county-level public...

this study aimed to measure the hospital productivity using data envelopment analysis (dea) technique and malmquist indices.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 indices with an input-orien...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many people around the globe. Europe, as one of the most seriously affected continents, has been struggling with the novel coronavirus for several months. Obviously, outbreak response management plays a critical role in the impact of the disease. Therefore, in this paper, Malmquist Productivity Index is used to evaluate the performance of the most severely aff...

We examine productivity growth of for-hire general freight trucking firms from 1999 to 2003. We find that trucking firms, which are often considered to be competitive, are not necessarily technically efficient. Moreover, firms’ productivity growth over the five-year period was stagnant despite embracement of new technologies by the industry. We conclude that positive technical change was largel...