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Measuring Efficency of Reformed Poblic Hospitals in Saudi Arabia : An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

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The study aims at investigating efficiency of public hospitals that have been reformed to operate under the management of the private sector through the full operating system. The study applied Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) on the sample of refonned hospitals based on the ministry of health data for 2011. The study concluded that although the Saudi government achieved many positives results such as: attracting the excellence human resources, rising of the level of government health services, attracting national capital to the health sector, and reducing the administrative burden for the government sector, there are (60%) of the study sample had not achieved relative efficiency due to different reasons. The study recommends that efficiency of hospitals could be raised by several ways: Re-distributing of resources such as manpower between public hospitals, addressing the factors that led to the inability of hospitals to achieve the required efficiency, and finally developing criteria for measuring the performance of hospitals periodically(annually for example) and compare the performance with other hospitals in order to ensure the extent of the efficiency of use of available resources

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10.21608/caf.2013.130994

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MOhammed

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Aboalsoaod

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Sadat Academy for Administrative Sciences

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Orcid

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19021

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2013-03-01

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2012-06-19

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2013-03-01

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1110-4716

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2682-4825

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CAF_Volume 33_Issue 1_Pages 36-62.pdf

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التجارة والتمويل

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