Health-care applications: From hospitals to physicians, from productive efficiency to quality frontiers

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 164, Issue , 2011, Pages 445-493

  Chilingerian, Jon A ^a   Sherman, H David ^b  

^a Northeastern University ^*

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency; Frontier analysis; Health services research; Health Care management; HMOs; Hospitals; Performance; Physicians; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958979567     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6151-8_16     Document Type: Chapter

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