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Delivery of Care and Goals of Dental Disease Management
Delivery of Care and Goals of Dental Disease Management The management of oral disease is mostly provided through individual treatment providers in ambulatory settings. Treatment providers are mostly general dentists, while orthodontic services are almost exclusively offered by specialists. Oral surgical procedures are mostly performed on an outpatient basis while extensive maxillofacial interventions are carried […]
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managed care organizations
Managed Care Organizations Although there are several forms of Managed Care, with partially smooth transitions between the different types, the following three categories can usually be differentiated: • Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) • Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) • Point of Service Organizations (POS Organizations) Health Maintenance Organizations Early in the 1970s, Paul Ellwood, MD, proposed […]
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managed care characteristics
managed care characteristics Emergence and Evolution The health delivery and management forms subsumed under the term Managed Care originated in the United States. First attempts can be traced back to the middle of the 19th century, yet it took until 1973 before Managed Care models gained increasing coverage when the US Congress enacted The Health Maintenance […]
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managed care definition in health care
managed care Synonyms Integrated health care delivery; Coordination of care managed care definition in health care There is no generally admitted definition of Managed Care. The term Managed Care refers to a variety of structural and procedural issues that had a major impact on the US health insurance system and health care structures and that were at […]
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Treatment in primary care and pathways of care
In the NSF for Mental Health there is the suggestion that some eating disorders might be treated in primary care. However, there is very little evidence to support the efficacy of interventions in primary care. Indeed, such interventions may serve to maintain the disorder. A Dutch survey of 108 patients with eating disorders showed that […]
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