1. Cost Inefficiency in Washington Hospitals: A Stochastic Frontier Approach Using Panel Data

   • Tong Li
   • Robert Rosenman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 81

2. Comparing Teaching and Non-teaching Hospitals: A Frontier Approach (Teaching vs. Non-teaching Hospitals)

   • Shawna Grosskopf
   • Dimitri Margaritis
   • Vivian Valdmanis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 90

3. The Technical Efficiency of Hospitals under a Single Payer System: The Case of Ontario Community Hospitals

   • Thomas S. Gruca
   • Deepika Nath

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 101

4. Alternative Methods to Examine Hospital Efficiency: Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis

   • Rowena Jacobs

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 115

5. A Simulation Modelling Approach to Evaluating Alternative Policies for the Management of the Waiting List for Liver Transplantation

   • Julie Ratcliffe
   • Tracey Young
   • Keith Rolles

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 124

6. Modeling and Analysis of Multistate Access to Elective Surgery

   • Boris Sobolev
   • Peter Brown
   • David Zelt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 132

7. Towards Decision Support for Waiting Lists: An Operations Management View

   • Jan M.H. Vissers
   • J.D. (Hans) Van Der Bij
   • Rob J. Kusters

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 142

8. Explaining Inequality in the Use of Public Health Care Services: Evidence from Spain

   • Rosa M. Urbanos-Garrido

   OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 157