Amaç: Bu araştırmada, Akdeniz Bölgesi’nde faaliyet gösteren Sağlık Bakanlığı’na bağlı kamu hastanelerinin göreceli teknik etkinlik düzeylerinin ölçülmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Yöntem: Araştırmada, hastanelerin performanslarının belirlenmesinde Veri zarflama Analizi (VZA), Analitik Hiyararşi Prosesi (AHP) ve Pabon Lasso Modeli (PLM) kullanılmıştır. İlk olarak ağırlık kısıtlaması olmadan VZA analizi, ...

Background: Two main issues that challenge model building are number of Events Per Variable and multicollinearity among exploratory variables. Our aim is to review statistical methods that tackle these issues with emphasize on penalized Lasso regression model.  The present study aimed to explain problems of traditional regressions due to small sample size and m...

Background: Hospital accreditation is a systematic external evaluation of a hospital's structures, processes, and outcomes by an independent professional accreditation body using published optimum, evidence‐based, and achievable standards. Accreditation is a strategy for ensuring the quality, safety, and productivity of hospital services. Implementing accreditation standards imposes a high cost...

The adaptive lasso is a model selection method shown to be both consistent in variable selection and asymptotically normal in coefficient estimation. The actual variable selection performance of the adaptive lasso depends on the weight used. It turns out that the weight assignment using the OLS estimate (OLS-adaptive lasso) can result in very poor performance when collinearity of the model matr...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to identify thresholds for hospital bed utilisation which are independently associated with significantly higher risks for Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in acute hospitals in England. METHOD A retrospective analysis was carried out on reported data from the English National Health Service (NHS) for the financial year 2013/2014. Reported rates of CDI were us...