The healthcare sector in general and hospitals in particular represent a main application
area for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This paper reviews 262 papers of DEA …

Decision making techniques have been widely used in healthcare and medical industry.
This study systematically reviews the conventional and fuzzy decision-making techniques …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

QUALIFLEX, a generalization of Jacquet-Lagreze's permutation method, is a useful
outranking method in decision analysis because of its flexibility with respect to cardinal and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on hospitals and healthcare systems
around the world. The cost of business disruption combined with lingering COVID-19 costs …

The ongoing outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has been deeply impacting health systems
worldwide. In this context, it is pivotal to measure the efficiency of different nations' response …

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it provides a contribution to the debate on
judicial efficiency by conducting an applied research on the Italian tax judiciary thanks to a …

Focusing on the Italian judicial system as our case study, we use Data Envelopment
Analysis to estimate technical efficiency scores and reference values for policy makers. In …

Currently there is no clear empirical evidence as to which the most appropriate reform to
improve national judicial systems might be, ie, whether it is better to implement a policy …

This article presents a survey of the literature on the application of operational research (OR)
in healthcare, with a particular focus on behavioural considerations. In order to explore the …