The Impact of the Health Transformation Plan on Hospital Performance Indicators: A Meta‑analysis Study in an EMRO Region Country

Fatemeh Setoodehzadeh, Alireza Ansari‑Moghaddam, Mohammad Khammarnia, Fatemeh Bagher Barahouei

Abstract


To adapt to the changing conditions and respond to the needs of society, health systems need continuous changes and reforms in their structure and performance, and subsequently, they need to evaluate their indicators. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the impact of the health system transformation plan (HTP) on the functional indicators and efficiency of hospitals in a country in the Middle East region (Iran). A systematic literature review was conducted according to the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‑Analyses) guidelines using the online databases Medline, EMBASE, Scopus, Pubmed, SID, Magiran, and Medlib from 2013 to 2022 using a combination of medical subject heading terms (‘health system transformation plan [Mesh] OR ‘health reform [Mesh] OR implementation of the health transformation plan [Mesh] ‘’AND (‘performance indicators’ [Mesh]) ‘’AND (‘Iran’ [Mesh]). STATA version 11 were used for data analysis. A total of 20 reports (cross‑sectional, cohort, and case‑control) were identified for this study. The results showed that after the HTP, the indices of bed occupancy rate and bed turnover rate have increased and the index of bed turnover distance has decreased. On the other hand, after the implementation of this plan in hospitals, the average of patients’ length of stay has increased. The implementation of HTP has improved most of the performance indicators of hospitals and has generally led to an increase in the productivity of hospitals compared to that before the implementation of the plan. However, efforts to strengthen weak performance indicators and identify effective indicators along with adopting correct policies to increase the overall efficiency of hospitals can be effective in improving HTP.

 

International Journal of Preventive Medicine 15():24, May 2024. | DOI: 10.4103/ijpvm.ijpvm_69_23

Corresponding Author: Ms. Fatemeh Bagher Barahouei

E‑mail: f.bbarahouei@yahoo.com

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Keywords


EMRO; health system transformation plan; Iran; performance indicator

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