Efficiency and productivity change in Ukrainian health care

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-154

  Pilyavsky, Anatoly ^a,b   Staat, Matthias ^c  

^a LVIV UNIVERSITY OF TRADE AND ECONOMICS   (Ukraine)

^b WARSAW SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Hospitals; Index; Malmquist; Order m

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549098716     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0070-6     Document Type: Article

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