A Study of Productivity of USAMEDD Dental Laboratory Technicians.

摘要

The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine if the dental workload accounting system used in the RDA system is useful at the installation level and (2) to provide data to HSC, DDS for determining if the resultant output is potentially useful as a management tool. Data collection of input, procedures accomplished (output), and daily assigned personnel strength was conducted at one MEDCEN and three MEDDAC dental services. All dental laboratory information collected was reported according to the method used in the RDA system. Data was submitted to the RDA at Fort Sam Houston, Texas for monitoring, editing, and correction of errors. It was concluded that the data collection mechanism employed in the RDA reporting system was shown to be a feasible method of reporting laboratory procedures at the MEDDAC/MEDCEN level.