With the increase in renewable energy generation and its problems related to output
instability, storage systems must be implemented in parallel to account for this effect …

A regional healthcare coalition enables its member hospitals to conduct an integrated
emergency supply management, which is seldom addressed in the existing literature. In this …

In recent decades, the purchasing function has occupied an essential role in managing
companies in all industries. In healthcare, purchasing medicines is critical due to the amount …

More robust and resilient health systems must safeguard populations and economies in
search of a more sustainable future. Their complexity, alongside the crises they have been …

Blood supply chains (BSCs) are highly complex systems that present many challenges in
their optimal management, such as different collection methods, demand and supply …

A benchmarking evaluation instrument was designed with a European Union country
regulatory authority for water supply and wastewater treatment services to determine the …

The healthcare policy reforms implemented in Portugal in recent years significantly impacted
the quality of health care provided to Portuguese citizens. Since public hospitals play a …

Purpose This study aims at evaluating the technical efficiency (TE) of healthcare systems in
the Arab region and exploring the key factors that affect the efficiency performance …

Abstract In 2010, the European Commission set out the development of an economy based
on knowledge and innovation as one of the priorities of its Europe 2020 strategy for smart …

This paper provides an alternative approach for computing aggregation weights for Farrell-
type efficiencies when value (revenue or cost) data are not available. This alternative …