- ►annals.org JV Selby - Annals of internal medicine, 1997 - Am Coll Physicians Spurred by demands for data from employer-purchasers and accreditation agencies
and the adoption of strategies for disease management and outcome-based quality
assurance, managed care organizations have recognized the need for rapid, ... Cited by 113 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
GJ Escobar, MN Gardner, M Chellino, B … - Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The neonatal (< 28 days) mortality rate (NMR) is one of the most commonly
employed maternal and child health epidemiological measures. It is also being
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GJ Escobar, S Joffe, MN Gardner, MA … - Pediatrics, 1999 - pediatrics.org.p.angrylapdog.com Background. High-risk newborns are known to have higher than average utilization
of services after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Most
studies on this subject report aggregate data over periods ranging from 1 ... Cited by 55 - Related articles - All 5 versions
GJ Escobar, A Fischer, R Kremers, MS … - Quality Management in Healthcare, 1997 - journals.lww.com 20 Quality Management in Health Care/Summer 1997 cai care in general, let alone
what occurs in highly specialized settings such as the NICU. Much of the
literature comes from the fee-for-service sector and tends to focus on ... Cited by 36 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] C Weisner, J Mertens, S Parthasarathy, C … - Health Services Research, 2000 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Objective. To compare outcome and cost-effectiveness of the two primary
addiction treatment options, day hospitals (DH) and traditional outpatient
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GJ Escobar - Pediatrics, 1999 - Am Acad Pediatrics "Rule out sepsis" may be the most common discharge diagnosis among infants
admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Although the frequency of sepsis,
meningitis, and other confirmed bacterial infections has remained constant ( ... Cited by 70 - Related articles - All 5 versions
EP Armstrong - Clinical therapeutics, 1996 - Elsevier This paper addresses information essential to the creation, monitoring, and
evaluation of disease management programs within managed-care organizations.
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KH Summers - Clinical therapeutics, 1996 - Elsevier After a brief analysis of the financial and health care motives that have led to
the current boom in disease management (DM) programs, this paper discusses the
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TB Newman, GJ Escobar, VM Gonzales, MA … - Pediatrics, 1999 - pediatrics.org.p.angrylapdog.com Add to CiteULike Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us Add to Digg Add to Facebook
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