TY - JOUR AU - Ravaghi, Hamid AU - Afshari, Mahnaz AU - Isfahani, Parvaneh AU - BĂ©lorgeot, Victoria D. PY - 2019 DA - 2019/11/12 TI - A systematic review on hospital inefficiency in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: sources and solutions JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 830 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Evaluating hospital efficiency is a process to optimize resource utilization and allocation. This is vital due to hospitals being the largest financial cost in a health system. To limit avoidable uses of hospital resources, it is important to identify the sources of hospital inefficiencies and to put in place measures towards their reduction and elimination. Thus, the purpose of this research is to examine the sources of hospital inefficiency in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and existing strategies tackling this issue. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4701-1 DO - 10.1186/s12913-019-4701-1 ID - Ravaghi2019 ER -