Health resource allocation and productive efficiency of Chinese county hospitals: Data from 1993 to 2005

BioScience Trends

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 218-224

  Gai, Ruoyan ^a,b   Zhou, Chengchao ^a   Xu, Lingzhong ^a   Zhu, Min ^a   Wang, Xingzhou ^a   Li, Shixue ^a   Zheng, Wengui ^a   Song, Peipei ^a   Yang, Xuelai ^c   Fang, Liyi ^d   Zhen, Yancheng ^a   Tang, Wei ^a,b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CHINA JAPAN FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL   (China)

^d Shandong Medical College   (China)

Author keywords

China; County hospital; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Productivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BED; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL STAFF; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BEDS; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICAL STAFF; MODELS, ECONOMIC;

EID: 79952278915     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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