Health care benchmarking and performance evaluation. An assessment using data envelopment analysis (DEA). With CD-ROM (Q947719)

The present book by Doctor Yasar Ozcan is clear and very well structured. It starts with an interesting overview on efficiency and effectiveness performance measurement, through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Then, using the exposed models and methods, the author addresses a number of appealing health care applications, from hospital management to medical measuring of performance, passing through staff performance evaluation. This is an important text book for post-graduate students and professionals that devote their work and research on improving the efficiency of heath care services. It also provides an interesting introduction and overview on efficiency analysis, performance measurement and DEA for those graduated in Management Science, Operations Research or Applied Mathematics that are intended to follow their research work and activity on heath system issues.