An empirical study based on BSC-DEA to measure the relative efficiencies of different health care centers in province of Semnan, Iran


Azam Ghotbueea, Mohammad Hemati and Ramezan Fateminezhad


In this paper, we present an empirical investigation to measure the relative efficiency of seven health care centers in province of Semnan, Iran, which were under the coverage of social security organization of Iran. The proposed model of this paper uses a hybrid of balanced score card and data envelopment analysis for performance measurement. The proposed sudy uses four perspectives of balanced score card including learning and growth, internal process, customer and financial perspectives and within each perspective, data envelopment analysis is adopted so that the outputs of each perspective are used as inputs of the other perspective. The preliminary results indicate that all seven units perform relatively well and the overall efficiency of all units in this province is 0.769.


DOI: j.msl.2012.06.042

Keywords: Balance score card ,Data envelopment analysis ,Social security organization ,Efficiency estimation

How to cite this paper:

Ghotbueea, A., Hemati, M & Fateminezhad, R. (2012). An empirical study based on BSC-DEA to measure the relative efficiencies of different health care centers in province of Semnan, Iran.Management Science Letters, 2(7), 2643-2650.


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