Funding / potential competing interests: No financial support and no other potential conflict of interest relevant to this article were reported. Correspondence: Thomas Dieterle; MD Divisional Medical and Scientific Affairs, Roche Diagnostics, Basel, and Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel Grenzacherstrasse CH – 4070 Basel thomas.dieterle[at]usb.ch; thomas.dieterle[at]roc...

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Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is extensively adopted to evaluate the relative efficiencies of a group insurance companies from multidimensional perspective. Selecting an appropriate DEA framework for businesses, however, remains ambiguous. We use slack-based measure (SBM) models in four perspectives, namely, SBM, network SBM (NSBM), dynamic (DSBM), and (DNSBM) frameworks. present applicabilit...

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