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Health Care Applications

From Hospitals to Physicians, From Productive Efficiency to Quality Frontiers

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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.

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    Jon A. Chilingerian

  2. College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

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Chilingerian, J.A., Sherman, H.D. (2004). Health Care Applications. In: Cooper, W.W., Seiford, L.M., Zhu, J. (eds) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 71. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7798-X_17

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