Data and information requirements for the Department of Veterans Affairs Resource Allocation Systems

Medical Care

Volumn 34, Issue 3 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Lehner, Laura ^a,b   Burgess Jr , James ^a   Hults, David ^a   Stefos, Theodore ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b Management Science Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitation; incentives; Global budgets

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CAPITATION FEE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

BUDGETS; CAPITATION FEE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INFLATION, ECONOMIC; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030096418     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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