Environmental factors and productivity on Dutch hospitals: A semi-parametric approach

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-34

  Blank, Jos L T ^a   Valdmanis, Vivian G ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Confidence intervals; DEA; Hospitals; Tobit; Truncated regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NETHERLANDS; PROGRAMMING, LINEAR;

EID: 77349126101     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-009-9104-0     Document Type: Article

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