Finding "truth" in managed care.

Managed care: devils, angels, and the truth in between.

Nursing Care and Postmodernism

As a historical era, postmodernism signifies transition from inflexible and logical positivism and entry into a new view to science. Postmodernism offers a number of nursing practice revise that including humanism, conditions, and borderless, multi-voice, view, and multicultural world, changes in meaning of knowledge, and life-long learning. Demographic changes, technological advances, ethnic a...

Validation of Color Managed 3D Appearance Acquisition

Image-based appearance acquisition algorithms are able to generate realistic 3D models of real objects but have previously not taken care of calibrated color space. We integrate a color managed high-dynamic range imaging technique into a recent appearance acquisition algorithm and generate models in CIE XYZ color space. We compare the final models with spectrophotometric measurements and comput...

Evaluation of managed health care in contagious and non-contagious diseases in Golestan province, northern Iran during 2016

Background and Objective: Managed health care is one of the main components of universal health care systems, which recently has drawn more attentions. Therefore, based on the high costs of health system, poor quality of services, reduce efficiency, it is necessary to study and design a model to distinguish managed form unmanaged systems in Iran. This study was done to evaluate the managed heal...

Consumer protection in managed care: finding the balance.