A Systems Analysis of Alternative Food Service Concepts for New Army Hospitals

Abstract

Systems Analysis is used to determine the best food service system design for use in the construction of new Army facilities. Four food service system concepts for Army hospitals are defined, evaluated and compared based on cost and systems effectiveness. Significant improvements for new hospitals are indicated by all the alternatives compared to the current concept of operation with the ready foods concept demonstrating the lowest operating cost and highest systems effectiveness. Layouts of the preferred food service systems and artist's concepts of a suggested new ward feeding concept are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA061946

Entities

People

  • A. Freeman
  • G. Eccleston
  • G. Hertweck
  • M. Herz
  • S. Baritz

Organizations

  • United States Army Soldier Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Facilities
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Data Science
  • Economic Analysis
  • Experimental Design
  • Food Preparation
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Medical Personnel
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Psychology
  • Surveys
  • Therapy
  • Vegetables

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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