Productive performance and its components in Greek public hospitals

Operational Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-27

  Dimas, G ^a   Goula, A ^a   Soulis, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

DEA; Health systems; Malmquist index; Productivity; Tobit analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858281762     PISSN: 11092858     EISSN: 18661505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12351-010-0082-2     Document Type: Article

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