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General Paper

Cost efficiency and scale economies in general dental practices in the US: a non-parametric and parametric analysis of Colorado data

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Pages 762-774 | Received 01 Aug 2010, Accepted 01 Aug 2011, Published online: 21 Dec 2017

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