Calder D A, Swinamer J
Physiother Can. 1980 May-Jun;32(3):141-4.
In these days of rising health care expenditures and public demand for physiotherapy services, physiotherapy managers are faced with many decisions regarding demands for services which run counter to budgetary limitations. This paper presents a new methodology -- Functional Value Analysis (FVA) -- which the physiotherapy department manager can use as one solution to his problem of continuing the provision of services while under financial constraints. Functional Value Analysis is a process that can be used to analyze and determine the cost of various activities that occur in a physiotherapy department. This process can also be used to generate cost-saving ideas and to priorize them. The Task Force Committee of a Manitoban hospital wanted cost-saving ideas, for 30 per cent of its budget, documented. Therefore, the physiotherapy department, along with other professional service departments at the hospital, undertook such an FVA study in October of 1978. Out of the physiotherapy departments annual budget of $615,960, the department was able to document cost-saving ideas of $267,346. Functional Value Analysis is one tool for a department manager's use which can reduce costs in an organized logical manner.
在如今医疗保健支出不断上涨以及公众对物理治疗服务需求增加的情况下，物理治疗管理人员面临着诸多有关服务需求的决策，而这些需求与预算限制相悖。本文介绍了一种新方法——功能价值分析（FVA），物理治疗部门经理可以将其作为在财务受限的情况下继续提供服务这一问题的一种解决方案。功能价值分析是一个可用于分析和确定物理治疗部门各种活动成本的过程。这个过程还可用于产生节省成本的想法并对其进行优先级排序。马尼托巴省一家医院的特别工作组委员会希望记录下占其预算30%的节省成本的想法。因此，物理治疗部门与医院的其他专业服务部门一起，于1978年10月进行了这样一项功能价值分析研究。在物理治疗部门每年615,960美元的预算中，该部门能够记录下267,346美元的节省成本的想法。功能价值分析是部门经理可以使用的一种工具，它能够以有组织的逻辑方式降低成本。
