Productivity and efficiency changes in primary care: a Malmquist index approach
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Health Care Management Science
- Vol. 2 (1) , 11-26
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1019067223945
Abstract
The reforms of the National Health System in the UK introduced in 1990 led to substantial changes in the organisation of primary health care. In this paper we analyse the efficiency of primary care...Keywords
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