… We have defined the cross-efficiency of DMU j as measured by DMU к as the ratio of weighted
output to weighted input obtained when we use the input and output levels of DMU j and the …

CMAJ| JANUARY 7, 2019| VOLUME 191| ISSUE 1 E17 nuanced view of disease, which
included recognition of psychosocial issues along with physiochemistry. 4 Engel’s …

OBJECTIVE: The study explored knowledge of mental health benefits and preferences for
providers among the general public. METHODS: Analysis was based on a telephone survey of …

Recently, there has been a prominent call in the history of medicine for greater engagement
with disability perspectives. In this article, I suggest that critiques of the so-called medical …

In this study we used information from discharge abstracts to develop three different risk-adjusted
measures of hospital performance: a Risk-Adjusted Mortality Index, a Risk-Adjusted …

Health professionals do not reflect the broader racial/ethnic diversity of the United States.
Historical barriers to accessing health professions education have played a major role in …

A history of genetic testing warns that such tests may tell us more than we want to know.
Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s …

Some important conceptual problems concerning the application of chance constrained
programming (CCP) to risky practical decision problems are discussed by comparing CCP to …

The purpose of this study was to analyze changes in rates of unscheduled readmissions
and changes in technical efficiency following the introduction of the Medicare Prospective …

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 legislated the idea of reimbursing ambulatory sites for
training medical professionals. However, very little is known about the costs of training in such …