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`Build versus Buy' in Disease Management: Separating Fact from Myth

Lewis, Alfred - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 6, pp. 315-318

This article exposes and corrects some of the major myths about outsourcing disease management to a specialised expert vendor. Currently, a number of health plan medical directors feel that outsourcing costs more than building internally, will not provide a return on investment, and requires a...

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Phased Competency: A New Model to Prepare Nurses for Enhanced Roles In Diabetes Disease Management

Edwards, Linda L. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 5 (1999) 5, pp. 253-261

. Patient education, one of the cornerstones in diabetes disease management programmes, has been an important nursing role for … learning needs. Much of the outcomes research studying the effectiveness of patient education programmes is related to … traditional, hospital-based programmes. Simply adapting traditional diabetes education programmes may not be sufficient to address …

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Outcomes, Outcomes Research and Disease Management: A View from the UK

Walley, Tom - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 5 (1999) 4, pp. 197-207

The UK National Health Service (NHS) is in the process of further reforms aimed at restoring a national focus to its activities and also at enhancing the quality of the service it provides. Key features are: 1. the formation of primary care groups to replace general practitioner (GP)...

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Integrating Systems of Care: Responding to the Demand

Howe, Rufus - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 6, pp. 349-354

There are 3 demand sources in healthcare systems: the patient, provider and payor. Patient-determined demand is characterised as `random access' and emotionally charged. Provider-determined demand occurs within working environments that do not inherently support integration activities....

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Disease State Management Programmes: Approaches and Applications

Fuller, Mark G. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 1, pp. 29-36

to identify persons at risk, intervene with specific programmes of care, and measure clinical and other outcomes.' This …

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Wellness Programmes: Primary-Care Medicine

Verma, Sarita; Forsyth, Evelyn; Flynn, Leslie - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 3, pp. 141-150

The evidence suggests that there are benefits associated with wellness programmes but there are methodological … limitations with the current state of studies which prohibit strong conclusions in favour of wellness programmes. Concepts of … medical therapies. Wellness programmes may emerge as adjunctive or complementary modalities in primary care, both for the …

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Patient Compliance and its Impact on Treatment Outcomes

Pizzi, Laura T.; Biskupiak, Joseph E. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 5, pp. 269-278

. Disease management programmes frequently contain interventions to impact compliance. Disease management programme developers …

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Helping Cure Healthcare Systems: Changing Minds and Behaviour

Prochaska, James O.; Prochaska, Janice M. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 6 (1999) 6, pp. 335-341

. Such programmes need to be applied across the continuum of care from wellness to prevention to early detection to secondary … prevention and to chronic care. Proactive recruitment to action-oriented programmes results in few patients showing up, finishing … up or ending up better off and can demoralise patients and professionals. However, programmes matched to each stage of …

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Haemophilus influenzae Type b Vaccination in Children in Spain

Jimenez, F. Javier; Guallar-Castillon, Pilar; Terres, … - In: PharmacoEconomics 15 (1999) 1, pp. 75-83

Objective: Invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), including meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis and epiglottitis, is associated with high mortality and serious neurological sequelae in children under 5 years of age. The availability of an efficacious vaccine suggests the need...

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Direct Displacement Effects of Labour Market Programmes: The Case of Sweden

Dahlberg, Matz; Forslund, Anders - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs). Compared to earlier studies on this topic, we have more and better data …

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