Longititudunal (Panel) Evaluations Using DEA

Monitoring performance over time is essential in health care organizations. The Malmquist index is a method which provides an opportunity to compare the health care facility performance from one period to another. Such a tool was suggested first by Malmquist (1953), then developed as a productivity index by Caves, Christensen and Diewert (1982), and then further developed by Fare, Grosskopf and Lowell (1994) as the Malmquist-DEA performance measure.