Health Care Applications

This chapter focuses on health care applications of DEA. The paper begins with a brief history of health applications and discusses some of the models and the motivation behind the applications. Using DEA to develop quality frontiers in health services is offered as a new and promising direction. The paper concludes with an eight-step application procedure and list of Do’s and Don’ts when applying DEA to health services.

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