Publications by authors named "Niloufar Ghafari Someh"
Rationale, Aims, And Objectives: The main purpose of this paper is to measure the efficiency and ranking of medical diagnostic laboratories by applying a network data envelopment analysis (NDEA).
Methods: In this study, each medical diagnostic laboratory is considered as a decision-making unit (DMU), and an NDEA model is utilized to calculate the efficiency of each medical diagnostic laboratory. Therefore, we design a series of four-stage system composed of three main laboratory processes (the pretest process, the test process, and the posttest process).
Rationale, Aims, And Objectives: Creating networked business models is one of the innovative approaches that have the ability and potential for meeting market needs. The purpose of this study is to provide a decision-making model for a fair profit sharing among the members of a diagnostic laboratory network while providing a distinctive value for the patients.
Methods: To identify the members of the network of laboratories, a suitable approach to calculate members' efficiency scores is proposed.