The short-term effect on technical and scale efficiency of establishing regional health systems and general management in Greek NHS hospitals

Health Policy

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 236-245

  Aletras, Vassilios ^a,b   Kontodimopoulos, Nick ^b   Zagouldoudis, Athanasios ^b   Niakas, Dimitris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Healthcare reform; Hospitals; Organizational efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE;

BED OCCUPANCY; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; GREECE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 34547880429     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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