Measuring and evaluating efficiency of hospitals through total quality management: A multi-criteria data envelopment analysis model

Journal of Transnational Management

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 77-97

  Zaim, Selim ^a   Bayyurt, Nizamettin ^a   Turkyilmaz, Ali ^a   Solakoglu, Nihat ^b   Zaim, Halil ^a  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Health care industry; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649449078     PISSN: 15475778     EISSN: 15475786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J482v12n04_05     Document Type: Article

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