Hospital efficiency with risk adjusted mortality as undesirable output: the Turkish case

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-88

  Bilsel, Murat ^a   Davutyan, Nurhan ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 84907710873     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-011-0951-y     Document Type: Article

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