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A primer on clinical programs in managed care pharmacy. [PDF]

J Manag Care Spec Pharm
Clinical programs are essential to managed care pharmacy, supporting safe, effective, and affordable medication use across populations and improving outcomes. This primer provides an overview of program types, as well as design, implementation, and evaluation strategies across health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, accountable care organizations, and
Taddei-Allen P.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Evaluation of and implications for a novel hepatitis C e-consult direct-to-treatment pilot program

Scientific Reports, 2023
A Hepatitis C (HCV) e-Consult Direct-To-Treatment (DTT) program managed by midlevel providers was developed at the Veteran Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VAGLAHS) which provided remote referral and, in some, remote management of HCV.
Neaka Z. Mohtashemi, Crystal Y. Teng, Jihane Benhammou, Tien Dong, Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Arpan Patel, Jenna Kawamoto, Debika Bhattacharya   +7 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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The role of data in health care disparities in medicaid managed care [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to standardize the collection of data on health care quality that can be used to measure disparities.
Guthrie, Bruce, Moskowitz, David, Bindman, Andrew B.   +2 more
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BENEFITS OF A CLINICAL PATHWAY IN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY

Acta Ortopédica Brasileira
Objective: Demonstrate whether a multiprofessional Clinical Pathway Program in Total Knee Arthroplasty (CPPA) contributesto optimizing hospital care. Method: Retrospective study of medical data of care indicators in 310 patients divided into two groups:
Márcio de Castro Ferreira, Gilvânia Silva, Carolina Padrão Amorim Marinelli, Julia Souza de Oliveira, Pedro Aurélio Mathiasi Neto, Gilberto Luis Camanho   +5 more
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Can Managed Health Care Help Manage Health-Care-Associated Infections?

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2001
Managed-care organizations have a unique opportunity, still largely unrealized, to collaborate with health-care providers and epidemiologists to prevent health care-associated infections.
Richard Platt, Blake Caldwell
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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Has Medicaid Managed Care Affected Beneficiary Access and Use?

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2002
This paper uses data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families to examine the effects of the various forms of mandatory Medicaid managed care on access and use among beneficiaries not receiving Supplemental Security Income or Medicare benefits.
Stephen Zuckerman, Niall Brennan, Alshadye Yemane   +2 more
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Insights from a national survey into why substance abuse treatment units add prevention and outreach services

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2006
Background Previous studies have found that even limited prevention-related interventions can affect health behaviors such as substance use and risky sex.
Lemak Christy, Wells Rebecca, D'Aunno Thomas A   +2 more
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Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adolescents: Expert Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN) is a rare low‐grade malignant exocrine pancreatic tumor, mostly discovered during the second decade of life in females, with a very good prognosis, provided microscopically complete surgical excision is achieved.
Sabine Irtan, Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almarez, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Maja Cesen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Louise Galmiche, Jorg Fuchs, Sarah Braungart, Bilgehan Yalcin, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +18 more
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