JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Reorganization Health Care Delivery and Productivity Change: An Assessment of Turkish Public Hospital Performance with Malmquist Index
Author(s): Selami Yildirim, Hakan Kacak, Cuma Yildirim
Citation: Selami Yildirim, Hakan Kacak, Cuma Yildirim, (2018) "Reorganization Health Care Delivery and Productivity Change: An Assessment of Turkish Public Hospital Performance with Malmquist Index," Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 20, Iss.3, pp. 73-80
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
Public Hospital Unions (PHU) were established with the aim of two pillars of Health Transformation
Project. First was the regulatory and supervisory Ministry of Health (MoH) and the second was public
health service providers with financial and managerial autonomy. Level of attaining the objectives of
these entities compared the efficiency of input-output conversion processes with the hospitals managing
pre and post era of the public hospital unions. Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Total Factor
Efficiency Indice were used as the analysis method. This study comprises 260 hospitals running between 2011 and 2013 period.