Health-Care Applications: From Hospitals to Physicians, from Productive Efficiency to Quality Frontiers

Jon A. Chilingerian () and H. David Sherman ()
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Jon A. Chilingerian: Brandeis University Waltham
H. David Sherman: Northeastern University

Chapter Chapter 16 in Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, 2011, pp 445-493 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on health-care applications of DEA. The paper begins with a brief history of health applications and discusses some of the models and the motivation behind the applications. Using DEA to develop quality frontiers in health services is offered as a new and promising direction. The paper concludes with an eight-step application procedure and list of do’s and don’ts when applying DEA to health services.

Keywords: Health Services Research; Physicians; Hospitals; HMOs; Frontier Analysis; Health-Care Management; DEA; Performance; Efficiency; Quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6151-8_16

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