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Medical Homes: Will They Improve Primary Care?

Bernstein, Jill; Chollet, Deborah; Peikes, Deborah; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

Medical homes are part of our nation’s overall efforts to reform the health care system. For decades, medical homes … have been a model for coordinating health care for children, particularly those with special health care needs.The sixth …

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Quality's New Frontier: Reducing Hospitalizations and Improving Transitions in Long-Term Care.

Lipson, Debra J.; Simon, Samuel - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

Hospitals and post-acute care providers have developed quality measures to evaluate their effectiveness in preventing readmissions, but these measures are lacking in long-term care. This issue brief discusses the need for similar measures to assess the quality of long-term care for people in...

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Using External Quality Review Organizations to Improve the Quality of Preventive and Developmental Services for Children.

Ireys, Henry; Krissik, Tara; Verdier, Jim; Faux, Melissa - Mathematica Policy Research - 2005

. This study provides state Medicaid programs, managed care organizations, EQROs, and other child health professionals with …

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Evaluating PACE: A Review of the Literature

Ghosh, Arkadipta; Orfield, Cara; Schmitz, Robert - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

Conducted as part of the Center of Excellence in Research on Disability Services and Care Coordination and Integration project, this study examined the effects of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) on Medicare and Medicaid expenditures, use of nursing home services, and...

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Quality-of-Care Indicators for HIV/AIDS

Wu, Albert W.; Gifford, Allen; Asch, Steven; Cohn, Susan E. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 7 (2000) 6, pp. 315-330

might include measures of health status and patient satisfaction, and essential care processes. Health status measures could … include CD4+ T-lymphocyte count and HIV-RNA, progression to AIDS, symptom scores, health-related quality of life scores … providers, purchasers of care to select among health plans and payors to hold provider groups accountable. In addition, data …

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Optimizing the Delivery of Effective Diabetes Care: An English Perspective

Mohiddin, Abdu; Gulliford, Martin - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 9 (2001) 12, pp. 683-690

Diabetes mellitus has considerable and increasing importance in England. The burden of illness is concentrated in ethnic minority groups and socioeconomically deprived areas. Evidence for effective clinical care has increased following the results of the UK Prospective Diabetes Study but current...

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The Potential Impact of Measuring Healthcare Quality on Pharmaceutical-Related Costs and Outcomes

Roper, William L.; Hodlewsky, R. Tamara; Tilson, Hugh; … - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 10 (2002) 4, pp. 233-239

Quality measurement has achieved a powerful momentum across the spectrum of healthcare, driven primarily by the search for strategies to contain rapidly rising healthcare costs without sacrificing quality of care. Because pharmaceutical care is involved in almost all elements of healthcare, it...

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Behavioural Medicine Group Intervention for High-Utilising Somatising Patients: Evaluation Across 7 Unrelated Healthcare Organisations

Locke, Steven E.; Chan, Pauline P.; Morley, Debra S.; … - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 6, pp. 387-404

problems (Initial Health Status questionnaire), health and functional status [Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36)], and … Personal Health Improvement Program(TM) (PHIP) designed to treat somatising high utilisers of general medical services … follow-up as determined by repeated measures by group analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results were similar for health status …

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Law and Disorder: Critical Legal Issues in Disease Management

Jacobson, James M.; Jorling, James M.; Paykel, Neela A. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 6, pp. 365-386

If the disease management industry succeeds in producing effective solutions to many of the problems besetting today's healthcare delivery systems (such as misalignment of financial and care incentives, poor customer service, failure to provide useful preventative care, and a dearth of empirical...

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Does better information about hospital quality affect patients’ choice? Empirical findings from Germany

Wübker, Ansgar; Sauerland, Dirk; Wübker, Achim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on …

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