The healthcare sector in general and hospitals in particular represent a main application
area for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This paper reviews 262 papers of DEA …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

It is crucial that we gain a deeper understanding of the features of organizational
governance and how they contribute to hospital performance. Health care governance …

Over the past twenty years, important changes in the Italian health system have led to
different approaches in organizing, delivering and financing health services throughout the …

The Austrian health policy aims to maintain and even expand high-quality health care. The
implementation of an integrated master plan, which contains input and output target values …

Queuing is one of the very important criteria for assessing the performance and efficiency of
any service industry, including healthcare. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the …

The purpose was to explore the gap between China and the international world in efficiency
measurement of hospitals with Data Envelopment Analysis, and to improve the …

This paper investigates the production technology of Portuguese hospitals using various
statistical tests and highlights the importance of technology assessment before efficiency …

Objective: the purpose of this study was to compare the technical efficiency of Italian
hospitals at a regional level and to examine if differences could be explained by …

In this paper, we address the issue of whether it is economically advantageous to
concentrate emergency rooms (ERs) in large hospitals. Besides identifying economies of …