Resourcing decision model for military hospitals.
As military medicine continues its adoption of managed care economic principles, the leadership of our military treatment facilities (MTFs) need a clear and simple rationale for making resource allocation decisions. The leadership body of an MTF needs to be cognizant of the role of readiness when making such decisions. This article provides a simple resourcing decision model that includes "readiness" as a decision-making factor.
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Naval Hospital, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA 92278-8250, USA. tnp1seh@tnp20.med.navy.mil
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D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D017146:Models, Organizational