Translating frontiers into practice: Taking the next steps toward improving hospital efficiency

Frontier techniques, including data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), have been used to measure health care provider efficiency in hundreds of published studies. Although these methods have the potential to be useful to decision makers, their utility is limited by bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mutter, R., Rosko, M., Greene, William, Wilson, P.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14446