In this paper, we present the results of an analysis of Québec local health care clinics (CLSC) based on a DEA method. Our results confirm previous results based on econometric methods: (1) increasing returns to scale and scope economies imply that average cost could be lowered through...

This research proposes an approach to measure hospital performance based on a generalization of Banker and Morey (1986) and Førsund (1996). This approach considers quasi-fixed inputs explicitly, calculates their implicit cost, and quantifies returns to scale. The performance measure is...