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Examining operational efficiency with prudent risks of Covid-19: a contextual DEA analysis with an undesirable intermediate measure
In the wake of the losses of human lives and disruption to the world economy caused by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become imperative...
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Case 19: How to Prevent Nurses’ Intention Turnover and Improve Patient Satisfaction? The Case of an Italian Hospital
Mister Bob is the Hospital Administrator of a vital hospital in southern Italy. In the last year, he has registered a growing level of absenteeism...
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Health care quality in nonparametric efficiency studies: a review
Scientists are increasingly considering quality in nonparametric frontier efficiency studies in health care. There are many ways to include quality...
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An Analysis of the Cost Efficiency of Ethiopian Airports
Cost efficiency is a key concern for any business. Existing efficiency analysis of airports mainly focus on minimizing costs, maintaining the...
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Towards a more efficient healthcare system: Opportunities and challenges caused by hospital closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic
A substantial number of United States (U.S.) hospitals have closed in recent years. The trend of closures has accelerated during the COVID-19...
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General Guidelines for Hospital Mass Casualty/Mass Fatality Decontamination Procedures
Terrorist organizations throughout the world have used a variety of chemical, biological, and radiological weapons (collectively known as...
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Hospital volume allocation: integrating decision maker and patient perspectives
Planning problems in healthcare systems have received greater attention in the last decade, especially because of the concerns recently raised about...
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Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system
Measuring the relative efficiency of a finite fixed set of service-producing units (hospitals, state services, libraries, banks,...) is an important...
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Investigating Energy Consumption in Hospitals by Text Mining Method
Energy consumption in hospitals can reach significant levels. However, it is essential to provide health services without compromising service...
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Applications of Hospital Bed Optimization
In this chapter we show typical bed capacity management decisions and how these can be supported using operations research (OR) models. During...
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Proposed Mathematical Model to Study and Analyze the Relationship Between Operational Flexibility Dimensions and Hospital Performance
The objective of this work is to create an active interaction between real and theoretical results. Study design was a cross-sectional study, and the...
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Bank efficiency estimation in China: DEA-RENNA approach
The current study proposes a new DEA model to evaluate the efficiency of 39 Chinese commercial banks over the period 2010–2018. The paper also, in...
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Leveraging electronic health record data to inform hospital resource management
Early identification of resource needs is instrumental in promoting efficient hospital resource management. Hospital information systems, and...
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Study of E-business applications based on big data analysis in modern hospital health management
In the era of big data, aiming at the problem of health data acquisition and processing in modern hospital information management, this paper...
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Geographic Distribution of the Efficiency of Childbirth Services in Turkey
Medicalization of childbirth services and regional differences are the major obstacles in the improvement of women and child health in Turkey. The...
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Using data envelopment analysis and the bootstrap method to evaluate organ transplantation efficiency in Brazil
Brazil has the most extensive public program for organ transplantation in the world, and the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) provides full...
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Impulse response function analysis of the impacts of hospital accreditations on hospital efficiency
Improving hospital efficiency is an emerging area of interest among policy makers in the new global economy’s healthcare system. To ensure accurate...
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Does hospital competition lead to medical equipment expansion? Evidence on the medical arms race
With the implementation of a series of pro-competition policies in China, the hospital market competition has been intensified dramatically over the...
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Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022
This study reviews scholarly publications on data envelopment analysis (DEA) studies on acute care hospital (ACH) efficiency published between 1984...
