-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …

demonstrate how the nonparametric conditional approach can be used to integrate quality into the analysis of efficiency. The … conditional approach allows investigating the mechanism through which quality enters the production process. Generally, an … inefficiencies inside the production set. To account for the heterogeneity of hospital services, we focus on a hospital department as …

"An essential quality management resource for students and practitioners alike--now in its sixth edition This popular … and highly successful text on Quality Management has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the … decision-making, and quality control. Some of the material has been re-ordered and changes to terminology have been made to …