Comparing French and US hospital technologies: A directional input distance function approach

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1065-1081

  Dervaux, Benoît ^a   Ferrier, Gary D ^b   Leleu, Hervé ^a   Valdmanis, Vivian ^c  

^a CRESGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 3242739534     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000246786     Document Type: Article

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