title: Prioritizing public- private partnership models for public hospitals of iran based on performance indicators.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The present study was conducted to scrutinize Public- Private Partnership (PPP) models in public hospitals of different countries based on performance indicators in order to se-lect appropriated models for Iran hospitals.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study, systematic review and expert panel has been done to identify varied models of PPP as well as performance indicators. In the second step we prioritized performance indicator and PPP models based on selected performance indicators by Analytical Hierarchy process (AHP) technique. The data were analyzed by Excel 2007 and Expert Choice11 software's.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In quality - effectiveness area, indicators like the rate of hospital infections (100%), hospital accidents prevalence rate (73%), pure rate of hospital mortality (63%), patient satisfaction percentage (53%), in accessibility equity area indicators such as average inpatient waiting time (100%) and average outpatient waiting time (74%), and in financial - efficiency area, indicators including average length of stay (100%), bed occupation ratio (99%), specific income to total cost ratio (97%) have been chosen to be the most key performance indicators. In the pri¬oritization of the PPP models clinical outsourcing, management, privatization, BOO (build, own, operate) and non-clinical outsourcing models, achieved high priority for various performance in¬dicator areas.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study had been provided the most common PPP options in the field of public hospitals and had gathered suitable evidences from experts for choosing appropriate PPP option for public hospitals. Effect of private sector presence in public hospital performance, based on which PPP options undertaken, will be different.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Services Administration, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran ; Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Raana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gholamzadeh Nikjoo
authors.affiliation: Department of community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran ; Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jabbari Beyrami
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Services Administration, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran ; Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jannati
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Research Center, Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asghari Jaafarabadi
keywords: Hospitals; Performance indicator; Public – private partnership