Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • CHANGING HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
  • CHRONIC DISEASE
  • RHEUMATIC DISEASE
  • PRACTICES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF MANAGED CARE SYSTEMS
  • Hospital Use
  • Physician Use
  • Tests and Procedures
  • Home Health and Skilled Nursing Care
  • Social/Health Maintenance Organizations
  • WORK FORCE ISSUES
  • RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND TRAINING
  • THE WORKSHOP
  • 2 Opening Remarks
  • 3 Keynote Address
  • CHANGING HEALTH CARE
  • HOSPITALS
  • MANAGED CARE
  • PHYSICIAN PAYMENT
  • SPECIALIST-GENERALIST INTERACTION
  • POLICY ISSUES
  • 4 What Would Ideal Care Look Like?
  • INTRODUCTION
  • INVITED ADDRESS
  • INVITED REACTION
  • INVITED REACTION
  • INVITED REACTION
  • The Patient
  • The Role of The Physician and the Relationship Between the Primary Care Provider and the Specialist
  • Other Elements in An Ideal System of Care
  • Rehabilitation
  • Exercise
  • Nonrestrictive Drug Formularies
  • Alternative Delivery Mechanisms
  • Structured Care
  • Relationship Between Financing and Care
  • Measurement of Outcomes in an Ideal Care System
  • Access to an Ideal Care System
  • Conclusion
  • DISCUSSION
  • 5 Managed Care and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Utilization and Outcomes Over 11 Years
  • INTRODUCTION
  • INVITED ADDRESS
  • Literature on Health Care Utilization and Outcomes in FFS and HMOs
  • Study Design
  • Results
  • Health Care Utilization
  • Health Outcomes
  • Summary of FFS-PGP Comparisons
  • Comparisons of Care Provided by Rheumatologists and Nonrheumatologists
  • Conclusions
  • INVITED REACTION
  • INVITED REACTION
  • DISCUSSION
  • 6 Measuring Medical Outcomes: Longitudinal Data on the Differential Impact of Health Care Systems on Chronic Disease
  • INTRODUCTION
  • INVITED ADDRESS
  • INVITED REACTION
  • INVITED REACTION
  • DISCUSSION.
  • 7 Changing Health Care Systems and Access to Care for the Chronically Ill
  • INTRODUCTION
  • INVITED ADDRESS
  • The Chronically Ill: Promises and Risks in An Era of Managed Care and Competitive Markets
  • Chronic Illness
  • Risk and Current Managed Care Market Dynamics
  • Capitation: Moving to the Provider Level?
  • Standards of Comparison
  • Inadequately Insured Chronically Ill: A Harsher Future
  • Vulnerable Populations
  • Policy Implications
  • INVITED REACTION
  • INVITED REACTION
  • DISCUSSION
  • 8 Training and Utilization of Generalists and Subspecialists at the University of California, Los Angeles
  • INTRODUCTION
  • INVITED ADDRESS
  • Primary Care Physicians
  • Subspecialty and Specialty Consultation
  • Transportation Systems
  • Education Systems
  • Graduate Medical Education
  • Integrating Subspecialty Medicine Into General Internal Medicine
  • Continuing Medical Education
  • INVITED REACTION
  • INVITED REACTION
  • DISCUSSION
  • 9 How Easily Do Health Care Systems Adopt New Knowledge, and What Are the Likely Future Developments?
  • INTRODUCTION
  • INVITED ADDRESS
  • INVITED REACTION
  • INVITED REACTION
  • DISCUSSION
  • 10 Issues and Insights Regarding Research, Education, and Training
  • INTRODUCTION
  • INVITED ADDRESS
  • Research
  • Education
  • Training
  • Conclusion
  • INVITED REACTION
  • DISCUSSION
  • 11 Commentary on the Day's Papers
  • 12 Conclusions and Recommendations
  • CONCLUSION 1
  • CONCLUSION 2
  • CONCLUSION 3
  • CONCLUSION 4
  • CONCLUSION 5
  • CONCLUSION 6
  • CONCLUSION 7
  • CONCLUSION 8
  • CONCLUSION 9
  • A FINAL NOTE
  • Appendix A Biographies of Committee Members and Speakers
  • Appendix B Workshop Guests.