Hospitals productivity measurement using data envelopment analysis technique

Iranian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1576-1581

  Najarzadeh, Maryam ^b   Ghasemzadeh, Roya ^b   Farzianpour, Freshteh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

DEA; Hospital productivity; Malmquist indices; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911483919     PISSN: 22516085     EISSN: 22516093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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