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Physician Staffing for the VA: Volume I.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Joseph Lipscom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: National Academies Press.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Physician Staffing for the VA
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY
  • Purpose and Scope
  • Organization and Conduct of the Study
  • Some Undergirding Assumptions
  • DEFINING, BUILDING, AND RECONCILING ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO PHYSICIAN STAFFING
  • Three General Approaches to Determining Physician Requirements
  • The Empirically Based Physician Staffing Models
  • Expert Judgment Models
  • Reconciling the Approaches
  • Using the Reconciliation Strategy to Calculate Physician FTEE
  • External Norms
  • OVERALL ADEQUACY OF PHYSICIAN STAFFING IN THE VA: COMMITTEE PERSPECTIVEVA CENTRAL OFFICE AND THE VAMC: PROMOTING A DIALOGUE
  • AFFILIATIONS WITH MEDICAL SCHOOLS
  • NONPHYSICIAN PRACTITIONERS
  • FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE METHODOLOGY
  • CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • 1 Overview of the Study
  • PURPOSE AND SCOPE
  • ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF THE STUDY
  • THE COMMITTEE PERSPECTIVE
  • REFERENCES
  • 2 Background
  • CURRENT ALLOCATION OF PHYSICIANS IN THE VA
  • Total Physicians, By Specialty
  • How Physician FTEE Levels Currently Are Determined
  • SOME UNDERGIRDING ASSUMPTIONSThe Methodology Focuses on Physician FTEE for VAMCs
  • This Is Not a Needs-Based Approach
  • Assuring the Quality of Care
  • The Methodology Must Be Relevant to the Present, Flexible for the Future
  • REFERENCES
  • 3 Overview of the Analysis
  • A CENTRAL PROBLEM: DETERMINING PHYSICIAN FTEE REQUIRED FOR PATIENT CARE AND RESIDENT EDUCATION
  • DETERMINING PHYSICIAN REQUIREMENTS FOR OTHER MISSION-RELATED ACTIVITIES
  • RECONCILING THE APPROACHES
  • MANAGEMENT USES OF PHYSICIAN STAFFING MODELS
  • PROJECTING FUTURE VA PATIENT WORKLOAD
  • THE VAMC-MEDICAL SCHOOL AFFILIATION RELATIONSHIPNONPHYSICIAN PRACTITIONERS AND VA PHYSICIAN REQUIREMENTS
  • COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  • REFERENCE
  • 4 The Empirically Based Physician Staffing Models
  • HOW THE EMPIRICALLY BASED MODELS WORK
  • Anatomy of the PF Variant
  • Anatomy of the IPF Variant
  • FORMAL PRESENTATION OF THE EBPSM
  • Production Function
  • Inverse Production Function
  • USING VA DATA TO ASSIGN VALUES TO VARIABLES
  • Workload
  • Inpatient Care
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Long-Term Care
  • VA Staff Physician FTEE
  • Nurse FTEESupport-Staff FTEE
  • Contract Physician FTEE
  • Resident FTEE
  • Nonpersonnel Factors Influencing Physician Productivity
  • ESTIMATED PF AND IPF EQUATIONS
  • PF Estimates
  • Inpatient Medicine
  • Inpatient Surgery
  • Inpatient Psychiatry
  • Inpatient Neurology
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Ambulatory Medicine
  • Ambulatory Surgery
  • Ambulatory Psychiatry
  • Ambulatory Neurology
  • Ambulatory Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Ambulatory Other Physician Services
  • Nursing Home Care
  • Intermediate Care