Competitive benchmarking of health care quality using the analytic hierarchy process: An example from Korean cancer clinics

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 147-159

  Min, Hokey ^a   Mitra, Amitava ^b   Oswald, Sharon ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0041734368     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0121(96)00021-3     Document Type: Article

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