Determining Navy Primary Care Requirements.
Abstract
There are basically two different approaches to determining requirements of staffing a primary-care-based system. Both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but we found that the optimization model, although technically feasible from a modeling point of view, wasn't an approach we could follow and complete. The primary disadvantages concern the need for certain kinds of data. To determine who should staff a primary care system and how generalists and specialists substitute for each other, you need to carefully define who can do what. We used HMO staffing ratios for a large number of medical subspecialities. After applying these ratios to Navy beneficiary populations at 22 U.S. naval hospitals and nine overseas naval hospitals, we derived the kinds of staffing that would be observed had the HMO provided care for these beneficiaries.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA312919
Entities
People
- Robert A. Levy
Organizations
- Center for Naval Analyses