A L Hillman
A L Hillman
HMOs use various incentives to control utilization of health care resources, and physicians who are thinking of joining these organizations should understand how these factors will influence their practice. Financial incentives include with...
Followup in HIV testing. Partner notification: the Colorado Department of Health approach [0.03%]
HIV抗体阳性者的配偶和性伴侣的追踪调查-科罗拉多州卫生部门的做法
T M Vernon
T M Vernon
The Colorado Department of Health finds that partner notification, a procedure that has been beneficial in stemming epidemics of communicable diseases (most notably of syphilis), has proved useful and cost beneficial when applied to the cur...
AIDS and health care workers. Safety measures that prevent transmission [0.03%]
艾滋病与医护人员安全防护措施防止病毒传播
M J Cummings,P Lynch,H H Handsfield
M J Cummings
Despite the fears of health care professionals that they might contract AIDS from their patients, they actually run a low risk. By identifying existing situations that routinely expose them to body substances and by taking reasonable preven...
R A Wright
R A Wright
Outpatient intravenous therapy (OIT) offers a safe, practical, and cost-effective means for long-term antimicrobial treatment of certain infectious diseases. The author compares the efficacy, frequency of administration, and cost of the mos...
D F Levinson
D F Levinson
All health maintenance organization (HMO) plans try to control costs by restricting choice of physicians and regulating utilization of service. Have some plans gone too far? Patient and physician can become caught in a complex web of gateke...
P D Fox
P D Fox
Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are undergoing major changes, among them the following: Enrollee growth will continue to be strong, although the rate of growth will diminish. HMOs will develop new product lines, such as offering pre...
Underinsured and uninsured patients. Basic health care: the Washington State experiment [0.03%]
未足额投保及无保险患者的基本医疗服务：华盛顿州的实验项目
E W Gray
E W Gray
During the early 1980s in the state of Washington, a change in access to health care became apparent. This was due to a change in the basic method of financing. Within the state, a shift to a service-dominated economy resulted in minimum wa...
J G Freymann
J G Freymann
Most Americans have, until recently favored a health care system preoccupied with treatment of disease, oriented around hospitals, and dominated by specialists. But this concept is being changed by economic, demographic, and technologic str...
J A Califano Jr
J A Califano Jr
Using his experience with Chrysler Motors as an example, the author tells how waste, inefficiency, and greed shaped a corporate health care system that, if it continued, could have blocked the corporation's recovery. An intense investigatio...
B S Mittler
B S Mittler
During the 1980s, it was expected that competition and deregulation would render health care more efficient and less expensive, but these measures have not worked. Rather, hospitals have become more expensive, HMO costs are increasing as fa...