Operating room adjusted utilization study

International Journal of Lean Six Sigma

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 111-137

  Arcidiacono, Gabriele ^a   Wang, Jihan ^b   Yang, Kai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME G MARCONI   (Italy)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best subset model; Cost efficiency; Health care organization; OR utilization; Regression model; Stepwise regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929855237     PISSN: 20404166     EISSN: 20404174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJLSS-02-2014-0005     Document Type: Article

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