This paper studies the performance of 45 Brazilian federal teaching hospitals, within five semesters as from 1998 by connecting and assessing technical efficiency scores and service indicators. The efficiency scores are obtained from a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. The service...

This work is accomplished in order to present two complementary papers on higher education evaluation and budgeting. The work aims at integrating organizational assessment into the budgetary process of Brazilian federal universities (Ifes). Since both papers emerge from years of evaluative and...

This paper aims at exploring a data set related to Brazilian Higher Education Census for the years of 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 as well as data from the Coordination for Higher Education Personnel Improvement (Capes) concerning master and doctoral degrees activities. The data are explored in the...

This paper presents an exercise on comparative efficiency evaluation of 43 Brazilian federal university hospitals (HUs). The methodology used is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), along with statistical non-parametric procedures and specific tests. As direct extensions of DEA, the paper also...