Introduction to GAMS -- Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis -- Extensions of DEA models -- Non-radial DEA models -- Allocative, cost, technical, revenue, and profit efficiency -- Special cases in DEA -- Productivity change -- Concluding remarks.

In a competitive environment, health care organizations must continuously improve their productivity to sustain long-term growth and profitability. Good productivity performance has been mostly assumed to be a natural outcome of successful health care management. Data envelopment analysis (DEA)...