Estimation and decomposition of cost efficiency in the health care food service sector: an extended stochastic frontier approach

DOI10.1093/IMAMAN/DPM030MaRDI QIDQ5452007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 27 March 2008

Published in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpm030

zbMATH Keywords

technical efficiencycost efficiencyallocative efficiencycost minimizationstochastic frontier approachhealth care foodservice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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