Data Envelopment Analysis Improves Hospital Capacity Planning
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We report on an application of data envelopment analysis to hospital capacity planning in Germany. This work was carried out as part of a ministry report prepared by a major German health care consulting company. Our input into this report is a first attempt to incorporate the relative economic efficiency of hospitals into the capacity planning process. The application develops a general approach presented in the more theoretical paper [10].
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