Benchmarking physician practice patterns with DEA: A multi-stage approach for cost containment

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 67, Issue , 1996, Pages 83-116

  Chilingerian, Jon A ^a   Sherman, H David ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Health care cost; HMOs; Managed care; Multi stage DEA; Physician benchmarking

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444435612     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02187025     Document Type: Article

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