Ranking the 'balance' of state long-term care systems: A comparative exposition of the SMARTER and CaRBS techniques

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-166

  Beynon, Malcolm ^a   Kitchener, Martin ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CaRBS; Ranking; Rebalancing; SMARTER; State long term care systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION AND RANKING BELIEF SIMPLEX; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; SIMPLE MULTIATTRIBUTE RATING TECHNIQUE EXPLOITING RANK; TECHNIQUE;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18844450742     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-005-0398-2     Document Type: Article

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