The Health Care Unit: A New Approach to Military Hospital Product Measurement.

Abstract

For the past 24 years the Dept of Defense has used the Composite Work unit (CWU) as a measure of the output of military hospitals. With the advent of the Uniform Chart of Accounts (UCA), a new standardized accounting system used by all DOD hospitals, a more sophisticated measure can be supported. The Health Care Unit is designed as such a measure of hospital output which takes advantage of the plethora of data now available. It is essentially a weighted sum of the performance factors generated within each of the 19 final accounts of the UCA, in which the weights themselves are derivable from post system-wide UCA data. A complete description of the methodology used in deriving the weights is included. The report concludes with suggestions for several potential modifications and extensions of the concept into the areas of resource allocation models and management information systems. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA087928

Entities

People

  • Isham C. Shields Jr.
  • Joseph C. H. Smith
  • William T. Hodson Iii

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Measurement
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Patient Care
  • Schools
  • Standards
  • Therapy
  • United States
  • United States Air Force Academy
  • Workload

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  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Theoretical Analysis.