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Financial management of posthospital care programs
Health Care Management Review, 1993In this article the model estimates differences in utilization and subsequent costs of inpatient acute care, nursing home, and clinic visits as a result of patients using a posthospital care program. These estimates are compared to actual costs showing the model's robustness.
J L, Ehreth, M K, Chapko, S C, Hedrick
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Management of a Point-of-Care Testing Program
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2009The approach to managing a point-of-care testing (POCT) program has evolved over recent years. Although many of the essential features of early POCT management programs remain intact, contemporary challenges including expansion of the test menu, changing regulatory requirements, and the development of more sophisticated data management connectivity ...
Kim, Gregory, Kent, Lewandrowski
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Implementation of a Bowel Management Program in Critical Care
Journal of Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nursing, 2015The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a unit-based, educational program on implementation of a sustainable bowel management program in a critical care setting.Two hundred thirty nurses in 6 critical care units within a 750-bed level I trauma hospital and 400-bed university academic teaching hospital participated in the study ...
Joyce, Pittman +3 more
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Psychiatrists' Roles in Managed Care Programs
Psychiatric Services, 1993We have obviously entered a new world of psychiatry in which fiscal considerations come first. Some of the uncertainties of five years ago are matters of fact today. Length of stay is shifting, and beds are closing all over the country. Psychiatrists' capacity to work in concert to improve the prospects for a profession whose scientific base of ...
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Managing Health Care Volunteer Programs
The Health Care Manager, 2008This article examines the salient aspects underlying effective volunteer programs in health care organizations. Volunteers are generally unpaid "employees" performing a variety of functions. Reasons for volunteering ranging from altruism to political are discussed. Considerations in establishing a good volunteer-to-organization fit are covered. Finally,
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Implementing Managed Care in an Industrial Rehabilitation Program
Work, 1994Managed care, with all its problems and potentials, is entering the scene in workers' compensation as a way to deal with escalating costs. Though the roots of managed care lie in cost containment efforts, its future depends on a shift in emphasis to quality of care. Clinicians must become partners with insurance companies and employers to evolve a “win-
L O, Niemeyer, M, Foto, D, Holmes-Enix
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Evaluating Medicaid Managed Care Programs for Children
Ambulatory Pediatrics, 2001Nearly every state has implemented some form of managed care for Medicaid recipients, partly in response to rapid increases in Medicaid expenditures. The unique features of children's health and the differences among states in the implementation and scope of their Medicaid managed care programs provide child health services researchers many ...
W O, Cooper, K, Kuhlthau
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Evaluation of a Program for Prenatal Care Case Management
Family Planning Perspectives, 1996A prenatal care case-management program in Tennessee was evaluated to determine its effectiveness in improving the adequacy of prenatal care reducing the odds of preterm birth (gestation less than 37 weeks) and very low birth weight births (less than 1,500 g). The case-management program, Project HUG, included care provider referrals, visit scheduling,
J M, Piper, E F, Mitchel, W A, Ray
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Dissatisfaction and Disenrollment in a Subsidized Managed Care Program
Medical Care Research and Review, 1997We studied members of the subsidized Basic Health Plan (BHP)from four managed health care organizations (MHCO). We compared low-income enrollees' and disenrollees' satisfaction with benefits, membership, and care from their MHCOs. Enrollees disenrolled primarily because they became insured through an employer, their income increased, or they moved out ...
D L, Patrick +5 more
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