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The Texas State University Digital Repository is the open access institutional repository for the university to collect, manage, share, and preserve free, worldwide access to research and scholarship of Texas State University faculty, staff, and students.
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Recent Submissions
A Study and Analysis of Special Types of Learning Problems Found in Ninety-Three Second-Grade Children
(1959-08) Hereford, Bessie; Zedler, Empress Y.; Burgum, Leland S.; Williams, Buford W.
No abstract prepared.
The Reaction of Some Vinylsilanes With Metal Carbonyls
(1970-05) Herbold, Harold Eugene; Fitch, John W., III; Cude, Willis; McEwen, Henry
No abstract prepared.
The Use of Data Envelopment Analysis to Assess the Relative Efficiency of a Managed Care Plan
(1994-05) Hepner, Joseph L.; Johnson, Charles M.; Demouy, Richard W.; Summers, Jim W.
In this study a technique referred to as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), that determines the relative efficiency of an organization or institution, is applied to the U.S. Army’s Managed Care Program "Gateway to Care". U.S. Army Hospitals are compared on the basis of their management of health care services provided by the military treatment facility (direct care) and those services contracted out to civilian providers under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). This study utilized diagnosis related group (DRG) data.
DEA incorporates multiple input and multiple output measures requiring no "a priori" knowledge. It constructs a frontier, comprised of elements or decision making units (DMU’s) that are determined as efficient, and then evaluates all inefficient DMU’s by their distance from the frontier and level of input and output measures.
The finding of this research study showed that relative inefficiency occurs in about one third of the eleven U.S. Army Hospitals examined. Elimination of this inefficiency could save the U.S. Army’s Managed Care Program "Gateway to Care" over $9 million in direct care expenditures and $340 thousand in CHAMPUS expenditures without reducing the level of services provided. U.S. Army health care managers must strive to be constantly in tune with the demands for existing services in order to remain operationally efficient. In addition, they must be proactive in negotiations with civilian providers for services over-utilized or unavailable by their hospital.
DEA is a very useful tool applied to a hospital setting because it is not based on a predetermined ideal of efficiency and is capable of incorporating multiple input and output measures, from similar institutions, to predict a single measure of efficiency.
Inverse Gas-Liquid Chromatography: An Approach to Studying Functional Groups in Organic Compounds
(1968-08) Henson, Terry K.; Perry, Reeves B.; Parks, A. O.; Tulloch, Lynn H.
No abstract prepared.
The Synthesis of High-Temperature-Stable Polymers by Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Naphthalene and Benzene Derivatives
(1971-05) Henson, French Clark; Yager, Billy J.; Fitch, John W., III; McEwen, Henry N.
No abstract prepared.