Measuring efficiency in health care : analytic techniques and health policy / Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street.

The pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. This book examines the strengths and limitations of two analytic techniques - data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis - widely advocated as means of measuring the comparative effic...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Rowena
Other Authors: Smith, Peter (Peter C.), Street, Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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