Assessment of hospital efficiency under health transformation program in Turkey

Central European Journal of Operations Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-37

  Sahin, Ismet ^b   Ozcan, Yasar A ^a   Ozgen, Hacer ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Health care policy evaluation; Hospital performance; Malmquist index; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79451471018     PISSN: 1435246X     EISSN: 16139178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10100-009-0121-3     Document Type: Article

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