Based on work by S. Malmquist (1953); Caves, Christensen and Diewert (1982) introduced what has been called the Malmquist productivity index. Their theoretical index was given an activity analysis interpretation by Fare, Grosskopf, Lindgren and Roos (1989), who showed how it could be computed...

The purpose of this chapter is to suggest a general framework for assessing the efficiency of health care in general, and health care interventions specifically. We begin with a three-pronged overview of assessing performance in health care which begins with what we call the budget or cost side...