Managed Care and Modernization: A Practitioner's Guide

Book info: Managed Care and Modernization: A Practitioner's Guide (Hardcover, 192 pages) – Open Univ Pr, 2001. Language: English.

Clinicians, consultants, administrators, and others associated with the healthcare industry offer practical guidance on applying managed care techniques to further the British National Health Service's modernization agenda, which they support. They discuss such aspects as an American practitioner's perspective on managed care, the Service's modernization agenda, evidence-based medicine in practice, utilization management in primary and community care, the case management of at- risk older people, mental health, benchmarking in healthcare performance management, and modernizing the healthcare workforce. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Editorial Reviews About the Author David Cochrane is an Honorary Fellow in Health Service Management at the University of Manchester.