Assessing the technical and allocative efficiency of hospital operations in Greece and its resource allocation implications

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 416-431

  Athanassopoulos, Antreas ^a,b   Gounaris, Chrysostomos ^c  

^a Athens Laboratory of Business Administration   (Greece)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Hospitals; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HOSPITALS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0034965382     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00180-6     Document Type: Article

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