The effect of Iran’s health transformation plan on hospital performance: Kerman province

Iran has performed Health Transformation Plan (HTP) from 2014 to obtain its defined goals. This study assesses and compares university non-university hospitals’ efficiency productivity in Kerman provinces, Iran. The data of 19 selected hospitals, two years before after Plan, was collected this cross-sectional study. These included the variables physician nurse number, active beds as inputs bed occupancy rate inpatient admission adjusted with length stay outputs. Data Envelopment Analysis method used measure hospital efficiency. Malmquist Productivity Index is change model plan. effect plan on were assessed using R software. results indicated that all average HTP 0.843 increased 0.874. However, it not significant (P>0.05). also had a decreasing trend. Based DEA results, found did increase significantly HTP. Therefore, recommended attention be paid performance indicators regarding how resources are allocated decisions made.