Military health system efficiency: a review of history and recommendations for the future.
This article reviews the history of measuring military medical health care efficiency. No single approved definition or uniform framework has ever been offered or suggested defining military medical treatment facility efficiency over the last 225 years within the Department of Defense. The purpose of this article is to consolidate much of the existing research on the latent variable of military medical efficiency over the last two centuries, and to provide health care leaders a framework for understanding past and current practices in measuring efficiency in the military health care setting.
Clinical Practice Management, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), 3601 4th Street, MS 6225, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
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Coppola
Robin
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Satterwhite
Lawrence V
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Fulton
Laurie L
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Shanderson
Rubini
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Pasupathy
D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States