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Measuring and Managing Health Outcomes and Quality of Care in End-Stage Renal Disease

Kinchen, Kraig S.; Powe, Neil R. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 9 (2001) 9, pp. 483-493

Health outcomes measurement has become increasingly important in the care of patients with end-stage renal disease … remain in health outcomes measurement and disease management. Resolving problems with case mix adjustment, managing the costs …

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Implementing Disease Management Programmes within an Integrated Delivery System

Friedman, Neal; Skogmo, Linda; Aruffo, Pat - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 6, pp. 355-363

implementation of disease management programmes using the above approaches has made it easy for those within the Lovelace Health …

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Performance Measurement and Management of Healthcare Professionals: Some Topical Issues

Marshall, Martin N.; Davies, Huw T.O. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 7 (2000) 6, pp. 305-314

Healthcare professionals are increasingly held accountable for the standards of care that they provide. The focus of control for this accountability can be either internal or external activity to the professional body and can use implicit or explicit quality assessment techniques. The science of...

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Monitoring Outcomes of Care in Older People in a UK Community Setting: The North East Fife Outcomes Project

Kliempt, Petra; Ruta, Danny - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 7 (2000) 1, pp. 39-47

health gains. Outcomes monitoring is increasingly being advocated as a vital component of healthcare, particularly with the … which outcomes of health and social care are the most important to this patient group; and 2. identified appropriate …

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Primary Care Clinic-Based Chronic Disease Care: Features of Successful Programs

O'Connor, Patrick J.; Sperl-Hillen, JoAnn M.; Pronk, … - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 9 (2001) 12, pp. 691-698

: The seven practices achieved significant improvement in health outcomes of adults with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or … model capable of achieving significant improvements in chronic disease care over a relatively short period of time. Health …

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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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