The effect of Iran's Health Transformation Plan on Hospital Performance Kerman Province (original) (raw)

The effect of Iran's Health Transformation Plan on Hospital Performance Kerman Province

Background Iran has performed Health Transformation Plan(HTP) from 2014 to obtain its defined goals. This study assesses and compares the efficiency and productivity of university and non-university hospitals in Kerman provinces, Iran.Methods The data of 19 selected hospitals, two years before and two years after the Health Transformation Plan was collected in this cross-sectional study. These data included the variables of physician and nurse number, and active beds as inputs and bed occupancy rate and inpatient admission adjusted with the length of stay as outputs. Data Envelopment Analysis method used to measure hospital efficiency. Malmquist Productivity Index used to measure efficiency change model before and after the plan. The efficiency was estimated using Deap 2.1 program, and the effect of the plan on efficiency and productivity of hospitals was assessed using Stata 15.Results The results indicated that the average efficiency of all hospitals before the HTP was 0.843 and a...