A DEA-Based Complexity of Needs Approach for Hospital Beds Evacuation during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a powerful nonparametric engineering tool for estimating technical efficiency and production capacity of service units. Assuming an equally proportional change in the output/input ratio, we can estimate how many additional medical resource health service units woul...

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Main Authors: Thyago C. C. Nepomuceno, Wilka M. N. Silva, Késsia T. C. Nepomuceno, Isloana K. F. Barros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8857553