REFERENCES
1. Alinejhad M, Aghlmand S, Feizollahzadeh S, Yusefzadeh H. The economic efficiency of clinical laboratories in public hospitals: A case study in Iran. Journal of clinical laboratory analysis. 2019:e23067.
2. Arah OA, Klazinga NS, Delnoij DM, Asbroek At, Custers T. Conceptual frameworks for health systems performance: a quest for effectiveness, quality, and improvement.International journal for quality in health care.2003;15(5):377-398.
3. Ketabi S, Ahmadi-Ahwaz N, Moazzam E, Mobasherizadeh S, Alizadeh V. Efficiency evaluation of medical diagnostic laboratories using data envelopment analysis in Isfahan, Iran. Medical Laboratory Journal. 2015;9(3):102-109.
4. Lamovsek N, Klun M, Skitek M, Bencina J. Defining the Optimal Size of Medical Laboratories at the Primary Level of Health Care with Data Envelopment Analysis: Defining the Efficiency of Medical Laboratories. Acta Informatica Medica.2019;27(4):224.
5. Pagana KD, Pagana TJ. Mosby’s Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests-E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences; 2017.
6. Hudson J. Principles of clinical laboratory management: a study guide and workbook. Pearson Prentice Hall; 2004.
7. Hollingsworth B. The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery. Health economics. 2008;17(10):1107-1128.
8. Murillo‐Zamorano LR. Economic efficiency and frontier techniques. Journal of Economic surveys.2004;18(1):33-77.
9. Athanassopoulos A, Gounaris C. Assessing the technical and allocative efficiency of hospital operations in Greece and its resource allocation implications. European Journal of Operational Research. 2001;133(2):416-431.
10. Yusefzadeh H, Ghorbani A, Lotfi F. Efficiency and productivity in health system. Yuban Publishing, First Edition, Tehran. 2017.
11. Peacock S, Chan C, Mangolini M, Johansen D. Techniques for measuring efficiency in health services.Productivity Commission: Staff Working Paper. 2001.
12. Kujawska J. Measurement of healthcare system efficiency in OECD countries. Metody Ilościowe w Badaniach Ekonomicznych. 2015;16(2):23-32.
13. Mortimer D, Peacock S.Hospital efficiency measurement: simple ratios vs frontier methods. Citeseer; 2002.
14. Emami Meibodi A. Efficiency and productivity measurement (in theory and practice). Institute for trade studies and research press, Tehran, Iran.[In Persian]. 2006.
15. Worthington AC. Frontier efficiency measurement in health care: a review of empirical techniques and selected applications. Medical care research and review.2004;61(2):135-170.
16. Taheri A, Jahromi SAS, Lotfi F. Efficiency of Clinical Laboratories Affiliated Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2015: an Application of Data Envelopment Analysis.International Journal of Health Studies. 2017;2(4).
17. Coelli TJ. A guide to FRONTIER version 4.1: a computer program for stochastic frontier production and cost function estimation. CEPA Working papers;1996.
18. Aigner D, Lovell CK, Schmidt P. Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production function models. Journal of econometrics. 1977;6(1):21-37.
19. Gannon B. Testing for variation in technical efficiency of hospitals in Ireland. The Economic and Social Review. 2005;36(3):273-294.
20. Zahavi M, Arab M, GOUDARZI GR, Hoseini M, Akbarisari A, Akbarihaghighi F. Measurement of economic efficiency of CCUS of Tehran university of medical sciences hospitals, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods: 2006-2009. 2014.