Managed Care Best Practices The Road From Diagnosis to Recovery: Access to Appropriate Care

Managed care best practices: the road from diagnosis to recovery: access to appropriate care.

BACKGROUND Depression is a painful, functionally impairing, and frequently recurring condition. A costly illness for employers, depression contributes to reduced functioning, decreased work productivity, and absenteeism. In addition, costs associated with comorbidities in people who have depression are higher when they are compared with the costs in people who do not have depression. In patient...

Managed Care Best Practices in Oncology Management

Using Personal Digital Assistants and Patient Care Algorithms to Improve Access to Cardiac Care Best Practices

In order to facilitate knowledge transfer between specialists and generalists and between experts and novices, and to promote interdisciplinary communication, there is a need to provide methods and tools for doing so. This interdisciplinary research team developed and evaluated a decision support tool (DST) on a personal digital assistant (PDA) for cardiac tele-triage/tele-consultation when the...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Surveying Consumer Satisfaction to Assess Managed-Care Quality: Current Practices

Growing interest in using consumer satisfaction information to enhance quality of care and promote informed consumer choice has accompanied recent expansions in managed care. This article synthesizes information about consumer satisfaction surveys conducted by managed-care plans, government and other agencies, community groups, and purchasers of care. We discuss survey content, methods, and use...