Benchmarking the Performance of Public Hospitals in Tamil Nadu: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Journal of Health Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-74

  Dash, Umakant ^a   Vaishnavi, S D ^a   Muraleedharan, V R ^a   Acharya, Debashish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

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EID: 84992828629     PISSN: 09720634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097206340700900104     Document Type: Article

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