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 …

Background National Health Systems managers have been subject in recent years to
considerable pressure to increase concentration and allow mergers. This pressure has been …

O artigo tem como objetivo apresentar os resultados de uma revisão da literatura nacional e
internacional sobre burocratas de médio escalão (BMEs). A sistematização da literatura se …

Parametric and non-parametric frontier applications are typical for measuring the efficiency
and productivity of many healthcare units. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, hospital …

We take a meso approach toward investigating the interplay between perceptions of
individual employees regarding HR practices and the variability of such perceptions within …

Objectives The goal of this study is to analyze the evolution of technology in artificial heart
valves for solving the problem of aortic stenosis (a narrowing of the aortic valve opening) …

This paper reports on the use of different approaches for assessing efficiency of a sample of
major Brazilian for-profit hospitals. Starting out with the bootstrapping technique, several …

To address challenges for the 21st century, the Chinese government initiated a series of
higher education reforms to support the open-door policy of China. Part of the education …

In this study, we analyze the unified healthcare efficiency in China at the regional level from
2009 to 2019. To accurately evaluate the evolution of unified efficiency from both static and …

Evaluating the efficiency of healthcare services accurately can help in analyzing the
rationality of inputs and outputs in such services. Considering the consistency and equity of …