Background and Objectives: Hospital is the largest and most costly operating unit of healthcare system. Provision of optimal care requires that hospital administrators identify hospital performance based on relevant indicators. This study used the Pabon Lasso analysis to assess the performance of hospitals and identify strategies towards an improved hospital performance.   Methods: This cross...

objective(s) developing and validating a simple, efficient, reproducible and economic reversed phase high performance liquid chromatographic (rp-hplc) method for the quantitative determination of pefloxacin in bulk material, tablets and in human plasma. materials and methods a shim-pack clc-ods column and a mobile phase constituting acetonitrile: 0.025 m phosphoric acid solution (13:87 v/v, ph ...

banks are one of the most important financial sectors in order to the economic development of each country. certainly, efficiency scores and ranks of banks are significant and effective aspects towards future planning. sometimes the performance of banks must be measured in the presence of undesirable and vague factors. for these reasons in the current paper a procedure based on data envelopment...

background and objectives: while social network analysis has left a remarkable practical impact in the healthcare field, the potential implication of this methodology in the primary health domain is poorly researched. hence, this study aimed to explore the use and usefulness social network analysis in the context of primary health care. methods: the health volunteers of imam ali health center i...

background and objectives: hospital is the largest and most costly operating unit of healthcare system. provision of optimal care requires that hospital administrators identify hospital performance based on relevant indicators. this study used the pabon lasso analysis to assess the performance of hospitals and identify strategies towards an improved hospital performance.   methods: this cross-s...

Objectives: This study examined main effects of controllability and interactive effects of controllability and generalisability attributions upon self-efficacy. Design: A cross-sectional study design was employed with pre-competition self-efficacy assessed at least one week prior to attributions and subsequent self-efficacy. Method: Participants (N 1⁄4 360; mean age 21.64, SD 1⁄4 6.96 years) co...

In this research, we present a hierarchical Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology for competitiveness analysis. This methodology takes into account the heterogeneity of the decision making units (DMUs) as well as the diversity of the comparison criteria. We propose to homogenize the DMUs by grouping them hierarchically, which permits a better identification and definition of the criteria ...

Objective: This study examined main effects of controllability and interactive effects of controllability and generalisability attributions upon self-efficacy. Method: Participants (N = 360; mean age 21.64, SD = 6.96 years) completed measures of precompetition self-efficacy (one hour prior to competition one), attributions (one hour after competition one), and subsequent self-efficacy (at least...