Measurement of hospital efficiency, using a latent class stochastic frontier model

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-54

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a   de Menezes, António Gomes ^b   Vieira, José Cabral ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Hospitals; Latent class model; Panel data; Stochastic cost frontier; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 80052649017     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.579061     Document Type: Article

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