Assessing the Performance of Military Treatment Facilities

By Nancy Nicosia, Barbara O. Wynn, John A. Romley

Considers potential efforts by the U.S. Department of Defense to assess the performance of military treatment facilities (MTFs) in cost-effectively managing health care. The authors first provide an overview of performance assessment in the nonmilitary health care sector; they then analyze the use of average MTF utilization and costs as performance measures, focusing on how MTF size and catastrophic cases affect these metrics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0833047779
• ISBN13: 9780833047779
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"