Productive, scale and scope efficiencies in U.S. hospital-based nursing homes

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Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 103-118

  Fried, Harold O ^a   Schmidt, Shelton S ^a   Yaisawarng, Suthathip ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Industry Studies: Nursing Homes; Mathematical Methods and Programming: Input Output Models; Production and Organizations: Firm Behavior

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COST ACCOUNTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EFFICIENCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EXCESSIVE COSTS; INEFFICIENCY; NURSING HOMES;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 0032141442     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03155986.1998.11732349     Document Type: Article

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