Managed Health Care

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MANAGED HEALTH CARE US Evidence and Lessons for the NHS
Health care in the United States has undergone a managed care revolution. The approach has transformed the way in which health services are financed and delivered. Arising from this experience, techniques such as utilization management, physician profiling and disease management are attracting attention worldwide. Many management consultants, pharmaceutical companies and policy analysts advocate managed care as the way forward for improving the performance of health care systems. In this headlong rush, far too little attention has been paid to the research evidence on managed care.
In Managed Health Care: US Evidence and Lessons for the NHS, Ray Robinson and Andrea Steiner have carried out a systematic review of the high quality research evidence on managed care in the US. Through a detailed analysis of the research literature they assess the performance of managed care in terms of its impact on utilization, costs, health... Tovább

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MANAGED HEALTH CARE US Evidence and Lessons for the NHS
Health care in the United States has undergone a managed care revolution. The approach has transformed the way in which health services are financed and delivered. Arising from this experience, techniques such as utilization management, physician profiling and disease management are attracting attention worldwide. Many management consultants, pharmaceutical companies and policy analysts advocate managed care as the way forward for improving the performance of health care systems. In this headlong rush, far too little attention has been paid to the research evidence on managed care.
In Managed Health Care: US Evidence and Lessons for the NHS, Ray Robinson and Andrea Steiner have carried out a systematic review of the high quality research evidence on managed care in the US. Through a detailed analysis of the research literature they assess the performance of managed care in terms of its impact on utilization, costs, health promotion and screening, quality of care and other key indicators. Following this analysis, they consider the development of managed care approaches in the NHS with particular reference to the early research evidence on the primary care based, total purchasing pilot projects.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in evidence-based policy making in this important area.
Ray Robinson is Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of Southampton. Prior to joining the Institute he was Deputy Director of the King's Fund Institute, London. Earlier in his career he worked as an economist in HM Treasury and at several universities in the UK, US and Australia. Andrea Steiner is Lecturer in Health Policy at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of Southampton. Before moving to England in 1993, Dr Steiner worked at RAND in California and was Assistant Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Medicine. Her background is in public policy analysis, with specific interest in gerontology. Vissza