Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: An example of surgical workload by specialty

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 307-318

  Dexter, Franklin ^a   O'Neill, Liam ^b   Xin, Lei ^c   Ledolter, Johannes ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c Prescio Consulting   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Data envelopment analysis; Jackknife; Operating room economics; Operating room management; Resampling; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGERY; WORKLOAD;

BENCHMARKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 58149195621     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-008-9055-x     Document Type: Article

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