Estimating the technical efficiency of health care systems: a cross-country comparison using the directional distance function

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2014.05.007zbMath1338.90492OpenAlexW2091639123MaRDI QIDQ296913

Panagiotis D. Zervopoulos, Gang Cheng

Publication date: 23 June 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.05.007

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisundesirable outputsdirectional distance functionOR in health serviceshealth systems

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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