Assessment of a Brazilian public hospital's performance for management purposes: A soft operations research case in action

Operations Research for Health Care

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-48

  Longaray, André Andrade ^a   Ensslin, Leonardo ^b   Ensslin, Sandra Rolim ^c   da Rosa, Izaias Otacílio ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b South State of Santa Catarina University (UNISUL)   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Multiple criteria analysis; Operations Research (OR) in health services; Problem structuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935017927     PISSN: 22116923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orhc.2015.05.001     Document Type: Article

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