Measuring performance in the presence of stochastic demand for hospital services: An analysis of Belgian general care hospitals

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-29

  Smet, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Econometrics; Efficiency; Hospital costs; Multi product cost function; Productivity; Queuing theory; Stochastic demand; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846993066     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-006-0021-7     Document Type: Article

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