This paper reviews 188 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement. The
techniques used are mainly based on non-parametric data envelopment analysis, but there …

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 …

Investigating the impact of quality and access to healthcare services on technical efficiency
is a hot topic in health economics and healthcare systems management. No satisfactory …

Scientists are increasingly considering quality in nonparametric frontier efficiency studies in
health care. There are many ways to include quality in efficiency analyses. These …

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise
of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much of the literature in this area …

Health care systems face resource scarcity that may jeopardise their financial sustainability
as well as the quality of delivered health care. In view of that, the association between …

The scope of this work is to present a comprehensive approach to analyze the effectiveness-
efficiency nexus in the evaluation of the performance of municipal solid waste (MSW) …

This paper provides insights into how Costa Rican public hospitals responded to the
pressure for increased efficiency and quality introduced by the reforms carried out over the …

We analyze the operational performance of 202 Turkish rural general hospitals. To help
improve performance on both input and output space, we adopt a directional distance …

This article presents a model for the analysis of cost efficiency within the framework of data
envelopment analysis models. It calculates the cost excess, separating a unit of production …