Technical and scale efficiencies of Catholic hospitals: Does a system value of stewardship matter?

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 173, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-101

  Chou, Tiang Hong ^a   Ozcan, Yasar A ^b   White, Kenneth R ^b  

^a MENNONITE CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catholic health systems; Data envelopment analysis; Hospitals; Stewardship; System value; Technical and scale efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954496931     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-88-470-2321-5_6     Document Type: Chapter

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