Investigating productivity change and hospital size: A nonparametric frontier approach

Applied Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-174

  Mccallion, Gillian ^a   Glass, J Colin ^a   Jackson, Robert ^a   Kerr, Christine A ^a   Mckillop, Donal G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PRODUCTIVITY; SIZE EFFECT;

EID: 0034628520     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368400322859     Document Type: Article

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