Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Magnussen, Jon - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
Norwegian hospitals using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The cost function is specified with total … frontier. To overcome the methodological assumption of convexity inherent in DEA, the sample is split into relative specialised … specialised hospitals, in all of the dimensions mentioned, although the differences are not very large. Since the DEA method …