The evaluation of relative efficiency of teaching hospitals

American Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 392-398

  Farzianpour, Fereshteh ^a   Hosseini, Shayan ^b   Amali, Tahera ^a   Hosseini, Shadi ^c   Hosseini, Sayed Shahab ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Controlling efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Decision Making Units (DMUs); Evaluate efficiency; Variable Return to Scale (VRS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859568096     PISSN: 15469239     EISSN: 15543641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajassp.2012.392.398     Document Type: Article

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