Greek hospitals: How well their resources are used

Omega

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-83

  Giokas, Dimitris I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cost function; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Greece; Hospitals; Ordinary least squares; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008842745     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(00)00031-1     Document Type: Article

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