Managed care: Disease management

Managed Care Guidelines For Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

Asthma management programs in managed care organizations.

The aim of this work was to investigate how managed care organizations (MCOs) currently approach asthma treatment and management and to determine factors affecting asthma outcomes. A Web-based survey was administered to a national sample of 351 medical directors of MCOs to investigate the asthma management program components in their organizations as well as gaps and barriers in the management ...

Managed Care Best Practices in Oncology Management

Managed care: the role of outcomes management.

Major implications of outcomes management as they are relevant to managed care are discussed in this article. This article traces the movement from the perspective of health service researcher, the administrator or clinician executive, the clinician and the purchaser who must use such strategies as change agents in their organizations to improve quality and obtain value for the customers and pa...

Managed care and patients with cardiovascular disease.

Physicians and other healthcare professionals must become more active advocates for patients in this new era of for-profit managed care. We must, for example, add our voices to those of organizations such as the AHA and the ACC that speak out on behalf of persons with cardiovascular disease and institutions that advance knowledge through education and research. During the early 1990s, for-profi...