Objective measurement of efficiency: Applying single price model to rank hospital activities

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 515-532

  Ballestero, Enrique ^a   Maldonado, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complete ranking; Efficiency models; Health care production; Technical and scale indexes

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

AXIOMATIC BASIS; EFFICIENCY RANKING; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; SINGLE PRICE MODEL;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HOSPITAL SECTOR;

EID: 0346640277     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(02)00231-9     Document Type: Article

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