Hospitals’ bed productivity has a remarkable effect on health system performance. The Pabon Lasso Model (PLM) is a useful tool for evaluation of inpatient beds performance and there is a growing trend in use of this technique in hospital performance evaluation. The aim of this study is to review the literature on PLM to gain insight into quality the results of these studies. By adopting a syste...

Background and Objectives: Constant monitoring of healthcare organizations’ performance is an integral part of informed health policy-making. Several hospital performance assessment methods have been proposed in the literature. Pabon Lasso Model offers a fast and convenient method for comparative evaluation of hospital performance. This study aimed to evaluate the relative performance of hospit...

hospitals’ bed productivity has a remarkable effect on health system performance. the pabon lasso model (plm) is a useful tool for evaluation of inpatient beds performance and there is a growing trend in use of this technique in hospital performance evaluation. the aim of this study is to review the literature on plm to gain insight into quality the results of these studies. by adopting a syste...

background and objectives: hospital is the largest and most costly operating unit of healthcare system. provision of optimal care requires that hospital administrators identify hospital performance based on relevant indicators. this study used the pabon lasso analysis to assess the performance of hospitals and identify strategies towards an improved hospital performance.   methods: this cross-s...

background and objectives: the large contribution of hospitals to the function and expenditures of the healthsector makes their constant monitoring and evaluation inevitable to improve the overall performance of the health system. built on that, the present study aimed to evaluate the trend of performance of hospitals affiliated with the public hospitals (in guilan province, iran) affiliated wi...

background: the pabon lasso model was  applied to assess the performance of six state-run hospitals in the province of kohgilooyeh & boyer-ahmad, to produce information that used by policy makers in their attempt to make the health care sys­tem more productive. methods: this cross-sectional study involved all the six public hospitals in the province, with 607 registered beds. data collec­tion a...

background and objectives: constant monitoring of healthcare organizations’ performance is an integral part of informed health policy-making. several hospital performance assessment methods have been proposed in the literature. pabon lasso model offers a fast and convenient method for comparative evaluation of hospital performance. this study aimed to evaluate the relative performance of hospit...