Methods for understanding super-efficient data envelopment analysis results with an application to hospital inpatient surgery

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 291-298

  O'Neill, Liam ^a   Dexter, Franklin ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURGERY;

BENCHMARKING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; STATISTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 29144484064     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-005-4139-3     Document Type: Article

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