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The temporal variation of cost-efficiency in Switzerland’s hospitals: an application of mixed models

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Mehdi Farsi ()

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Volume (Year): 30 (2008)
Issue (Month): 2 (October)
Pages: 155-168
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Keywords: General hospitals; Stochastic frontier; Cost efficiency; Mixed models; Random coefficients; C230; I120; I180; L250; L330;

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