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Asthma Management Programs in Managed Care Organizations [PDF]

Disease Management, 2005
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 ...
Hartmann, Christine W., MSS, PhD, Maio, Vittorio, PharmD, MS, Goldfarb, Neil I., Cobb, Nicole M., MAOM, Nash, David B.   +4 more
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Antimicrobial Drug Prescribing for Pneumonia in Ambulatory Care

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
To determine patterns and predictors of antimicrobial drug use for outpatients with community-acquired pneumonia, we examined office visit and pharmacy claims data of 4 large third-party payer organizations from 2000 to 2002.
Conan MacDougall, B. Joseph Guglielmo, Judy Maselli, Ralph Gonzales   +3 more
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Healthcare disparities and models for change. [PDF]

, 2004
With Healthy People 2010 making the goal of eliminating health disparities a national priority, policymakers, researchers, medical centers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and advocacy organizations have been called on to move beyond the historic ...
Baquet, Claudia R, Bengen-Seltzer, Barbara, Carter-Pokras, Olivia   +2 more
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Self-managed physical activity in breast cancer survivors: A scoping review

PLoS ONE, 2023
Objective Breast cancer survivors (BCS) experience many issues of rehabilitative concern due to the treatments they have undergone. Given the chronicity of these outcomes, the increasing number of survivors, and the positive results obtained by ...
Maria Chiara Bò, Andrea Merlo, Maria Bernadette Ligabue, Maria Chiara Bassi, Mirco Lusuardi, Isabella Campanini   +5 more
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Design and Operation of the Lombardy Parkinson's Disease Network

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common chronic neurological conditions leading to disability and social burden. According to the 2016 Italian National Plan on Chronic Diseases, regional health authorities are implementing ...
Alberto Albanese, Alessio Di Fonzo, Alessio Di Fonzo, Vincenza Fetoni, Angelo Franzini, Michele Gennuso, Graziella Molini, Claudio Pacchetti, Alberto Priori, Alberto Priori, Alberto Priori, Giulio Riboldazzi, Maria Antonietta Volonté, Daniela Calandrella   +13 more
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The Hungarian Care Managing Organization Pilot Program [PDF]

Value in Health Regional Issues, 2015
The aim of this article was to provide a description of the Hungarian care managing organization (CMO) pilot program and its environment, incentive structure, and preliminary outcomes. The need to change the behavior of doctors to increase the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the system was the key rationale for the Hungarian CMO pilot program ...
Boncz, Imre, Evetovits, Tamás, Dózsa, Csaba, Sebestyén, Andor, Gulácsi, László, Ágoston, István, Endrei, Dóra, Csákvári, Tímea, Getzen, Thomas E.   +8 more
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Advancing Population Health: New Models and the Role of Research. An Overview of the 22nd Annual Health Care Systems Research Network Conference

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, 2016
The Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN; formerly HMO Research Network) held its annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 2016. A consortium of research organizations affiliated with 20 large health care delivery systems, the HCSRN met for
Robert T. Greenlee, Lois E. Lamerato, Sarah M. Greene   +2 more
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The Value of Experience: Differences in Knowledge among Medicare Beneficiaries

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2005
The Medicare Advantage program gives Medicare beneficiaries the opportunity to choose from an array of insurance options instead of receiving prescribed benefits.
Merrile Sing, Beth Stevens
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The effectiveness of substance use interventions for homeless and vulnerably housed persons:  A systematic review of systematic reviews on supervised consumption facilities, managed alcohol programs, and pharmacological agents for opioid use disorder.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:Substance use is disproportionately high among people who are homeless or vulnerably housed. We performed a systematic overview of reviews examining the effects of selected harm reduction and pharmacological interventions on the health and ...
Olivia Magwood, Ginetta Salvalaggio, Michaela Beder, Claire Kendall, Victoire Kpade, Wahab Daghmach, Gilbert Habonimana, Zack Marshall, Ellen Snyder, Tim O'Shea, Robin Lennox, Helen Hsu, Peter Tugwell, Kevin Pottie   +13 more
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Can Managed Health Care Help Manage Health Care-Associated Infections? [PDF]

, 2011
Managed-care organizations have a unique opportunity, still largely unrealized, to collaborate with health-care providers and epidemiologists to prevent health care-associated infections.
Caldwell, Blake, Platt, Richard
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