Economies of scope in the health sector: the case of Portuguese hospitals

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2017.09.044zbMath1403.90671OpenAlexW2761960455MaRDI QIDQ1754138

Xianqiang Yang

Publication date: 30 May 2018

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.09.044

zbMATH Keywords

hospitalslinearizationOR in health serviceseconomies of scopepartial frontier nonparametric methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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Uses Software

• bootstrap

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