Investigating health system performance: An application of data envelopment analysis to Zambian hospitals

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Masiye, Felix ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL BUILDING; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL POLICY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); STATISTICAL MODEL; ZAMBIA; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BENCHMARKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MANAGEMENT AUDIT; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGRAMMING, LINEAR; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 34249741508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-58     Document Type: Article

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