Specialty Care
Managed Care Organization Characteristics and Outpatient Specialty Care Use Among Children With Chronic Illness
... receiving care in MCOs in which PCPs served as gatekeepers and who were insured through a State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in which all MCOs were required to provide the same benefit package and ...
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Unmet Need for Routine and Specialty Care: Data From the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs
... physician care, ...or specialty care was ...routine care, ...for specialty care, ...needed specialty care. The prevalence of unmet need for specialty ...
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Care coordination between specialty care and primary care: a focus group study of provider perspectives on strong practices and improvement opportunities
... Abstract: Care coordination between the specialty care provider (SCP) and the primary care provider (PCP) is a critical component of safe, efficient, and patient-centered ...from ...
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Interdisciplinary diabetes care teams operating on the interface between primary and specialty care are associated with improved outcomes of care: findings from the Leuven Diabetes Project
... the development of our complex intervention demon- strated the difficulty of balancing optimum study design with designing interventions that were practical enough to be applied in family practice. The MRC Framework pro- ...
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Care Coordination and Unmet Specialty Care Among Children With Special Health Care Needs
... Nationally care coordination within the medical home has been embraced as a key process to improve health care ...fordable Care Act of 2010, and numer- ous state and medical professional associations ...
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Correlates of Use of Specialty Care
... specialist care at higher rates than other children, reflecting the greater need for increased knowledge and management skills that a specialist ...health care access patterns, we anticipated that those ...
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Shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in management of long term conditions
... shared care interventions, or which components of shared care interven- tions, were most ...shared care service (Craig ...shared care group could be attributed to improvements in collabo- ...
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Increasing access to specialty care for rare diseases: a case study using a foundation sponsored clinic network for patients with neurofibromatosis 1, neurofibromatosis 2, and schwannomatosis
... to specialty NF care through a network of certified specialty care clinics publicized by a rare disease non-profit foundation has resulted in a 56% increase in the number of certified NF ...
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Variation in Specialty Care Hospitalization for Children With Chronic Conditions in California
... a specialty care facility than their pub- licly insured ...in specialty care ...a specialty care hospital were more likely to be hospitalized in that facility, there was ...
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Managed care and patient ratings of the quality of specialty care among patients with pain or depressive symptoms
... managed care index, the benefit indices, and the mental health carve out variable were not associated with patient- rated quality of specialty care in all regression ...primary care offices ...
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Specialty-care access for community health clinic patients: processes and barriers
... health care for all ...health care system will result in persistent inequity in access to comprehensive health care ...enhance care coordination with all partners along the health care ...
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Gatekeeping and Referral of Children and Adolescents to Specialty Care
... Medical Care (Indianapolis), Jeffersonville Pediatrics (Jefferson- ville), Marshall County Pediatrics (Plymouth); Kansas, Ashley Clinic (Chanute), Bethel Pediatrics (Newton); Louisiana, Chil- dren’s Clinic of ...
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When Specialty Care Is Unavailable to Rural Families
... Ethical dilemmas occur when all the choices are bad. In this case, there are 2 options that are each bad but for different reasons. It is bad to send a child home with a 20% chance of dying when a treatment could lower ...
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Primary care clinicians’ strategies to overcome financial barriers to specialty health care for uninsured patients
... access specialty services for uninsured patients have been observed and new models have been proposed, although they require resources to support their development and maintenance [4, 6, ...which specialty ...
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Parents as Information Intermediaries Between Primary Care and Specialty Physicians
... health care needs who were referred from 1 of 30 com- munity pediatric practices to 1 of 5 pediatric medical specialties at a university-based referral center and a large multispecialty group practice, which ...
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Use of outpatient care in VA and Medicare among disability eligible and age eligible veteran patients
... outpatient care by using provider specialty and CPT procedure codes that are available in both ...patient care from two data systems, which have different data generating ...primary care, ...
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Patterns of health care utilization for low back pain
... the specialty care subgroup did not differ from the reference subgroup (ie, 1–2 LBP encounters in 12 months), but both of these subgroups dif- fered from one or more of the other five subgroups on all ...
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A cross sectional, population based study of HIV physicians and outpatient health care use by people with HIV in Ontario
... best care for this diverse and complex ...Affordable Care Act has the potential to ex- tend health care coverage for a large number of people living with HIV ...of care of this population and ...
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Successful Use of a Primary Care Practice–Specialty Collaboration in the Care of an Adolescent With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
... primary care– specialty care interface; examples include Title V–sup- ported telephone consultations to pediatric subspecialists by medical home providers, service partnership agree- ments that ...
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Evaluating diverse electronic consultation programs with a common framework
... to specialty care is the main measure that has been used to evaluate the effectiveness of each electronic con- sultation system on population ...in-person specialty care visits, measured by ...
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