Productivity and quality changes in Greek public hospitals

Operational Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-81

  Karagiannis, Roxani ^a,c   Velentzas, Kostas ^b  

^a Centre for Planning and Economic Research KEPE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency; Greece; Hospitals; Productivity; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858281356     PISSN: 11092858     EISSN: 18661505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12351-010-0080-4     Document Type: Article

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