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Design of the Pattern of Effective Environmental Factors For Outsourcing the Services in Public Hospitals
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Morteza Nazari   , Leila Riahi  , Seied Jamaleddin Tabibi , Mahmoud Mahmoudi Majdabadi Farahani |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Management, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , l.riahi@srbiau.ac.ir |
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Abstract: (3391 Views) |
Background: Hospitals are considered as the most important consumer units in healthcare and one of the main organizations of health services. Therefore, paying attention to their performance and effectiveness is of special importance. The aim of this study is to design an effective and efficient pattern for determination of effective environmental factors to outsource the services in public hospitals of country to increase the success rate in delivering the health services and improve the performance level and increase productivity by using them.
Materials and Methods: Considering the results, this is an applied study and has an exploratory purpose. A questionnaire with 20 questions has been used for data collection, the variables of which are derived from comparative studies, its validity has been evaluated by the experts and its Cronbach's alpha coefficient was %86 in final measurement. The research community of the study was science committee of the universities, health system policy makers, experts in outsourcing and public hospital managers. Stratified sampling method was used for sampling. Data was analyzed by IBM SPSS statics 23 and LISREL 8.8.
Findings: According to collected information, Important environmental factors on outsourcing were policy factor with the average of 3.67%, risk assessment 3.38, background 3.25 and development 2.83, in order of importance. The average of total score of environmental factor effect was 3.21 and was meaningfully more than the average amount of 3 (p<0.001). It shows that environmental factors are of important factors in outsourcing the hospital services.
Conclusion: For achieving the desirable goals in outsourcing the services and avoiding the assignment problems, it is important to evaluate the external environment of hospital carefully based on the extracted components from this study and using an appropriate pattern for decision making in outsourcing the services. |
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| Keywords: Hospitals, Outsourcing, Risk assessment |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2018/12/30 | Accepted: 2018/12/30 | Published: 2018/12/30
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