Table 1.

Technical efficiency scores of the public hospitals categorized by hospital size and geographic location

Hospital category	Number of hospitals	Average CRS Score (SD)	Average VRS Score (SD)	Average Scale Score (SD)
All Public hospitals	91	0.76 (0.23)	0.87 (0.18)	0.87 (0.18)
Hospitals categorized by size
Large hospitals > = 500 beds	8	0.65 (0.27)	0.75 (0.3)	0.87 (0.13)
Upper-medium hospitals: 300–499 beds	22	0.76 (0.19)	0.80 (0.19)	0.94 (0.07)
Lower-medium hospitals: 200–299 beds	22	0.73 (0.25)	0.79 (0.19)	0.90 (0.18)
Small hospitals: < 200 beds	39	0.79 (0.23)	0.96 (0.09)	0.82 (0.22)
Hospitals categorized by geographic location
South region	22	0.75 (0.25)	0.89 (0.18)	0.83 (0.23)
East region	8	0.80 (0.28)	0.85 (0.23)	0.90 (0.16)
North region	17	0.75 (0.28)	0.84 (0.23)	0.90 (0.2)
Central region	24	0.83 (0.18)	0.89 (0.16)	0.93 (0.10)
West region	20	0.68 (0.2)	0.85 (0.17)	0.81 (0.17)

Source: Alatawi et al., 2020 [18]