disease management

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b>Disease management programmes (DMPs) have been developed to improve effectiveness and economic efficiency within chronic care delivery by combining patient-related, professional-directed, and organisational interventions...

The effect of disease management for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not well established...

..principles and challenges for designers, policy makers, and evaluators of patient-centered technologies for disease management and prevention...

b>Disease management has emerged as a new strategy to enhance quality of care for patients suffering from chronic conditions, and to control healthcare costs. So far, however, the effects of this strategy remain unclear...

..Significantly more intervention patients were initiated on a statin therapy or had their dose increased (15.3% vs. 2.3%, p < 0.001). Impact of the intervention on LDL levels will be assessed at trial completion...

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..Suboptimal treatment of hyperlipidemia in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) is well documented. We report the impact of a computer-assisted physician-directed intervention to improve secondary prevention of hyperlipidemia...

..While many patients with asthma and COPD are cared for by primary care practices, limited data are available on the use and results associated with spirometry in primary care...

..One large health care organization that tried to implement the CCM in primary care provided an opportunity to study these issues...

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Since 2002 the sick funds in Germany have widely implemented disease management programs (DMPs) for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and coronary heart disease (CHD)...

This paper reports the results of a large-scale analysis of a nationwide disease management program in Germany for patients with diabetes mellitus...

To share outcomes and lessons learned from an evaluation of disease management (DM) programs for asthma, congestive heart failure (CHF), and diabetes for TRICARE patients.

To assess the efficacy of a pharmacist-led, primary care-based, disease management program to improve cardiovascular risk factors and glycated hemoglobin (A(1C)) levels in vulnerable patients with poorly controlled diabetes.

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b>Disease management facilitated through information technology could mean a step forward towards a more effective and efficient care of patients afflicted with chronic illnesses...

b>Disease management programmes (DMPs) have evolved as an innovative clinical practice system to enhance the discharge outcomes of older people with heart failure...

..The effectiveness of multiple interventions in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unclear...

..To conduct the seventh periodic review and analysis of the clinical and cost-effectiveness research conducted in worksite/corporate environments between 2004 and 2008...

..The aim of our study is to investigate if adding a combined behavioural intervention to managed care, is effective in achieving changes in lifestyle and cardiovascular risk profile...

..To examine medication-related problems from the perspective of patients with a chronic condition and to identify how they may be supported in managing their medication...

..The intervention reduced copayments for five chronic medication classes in the context of a disease management (DM) program...

..Perhaps these programs do not match with the problems experienced in family practice. This study aims to systematically explore how FPs perceive recognition, diagnosis and management of depressive and anxiety disorders...

..g. format, content, tutor, setting), outcomes and effectiveness. The last of these focused on reports of randomised controlled studies...

Type 2 diabetes disease management programmes (DDMPs) are offered by German social health insurance to promote healthcare consistent with evidence-based medical guidelines...

..The study presents a typology of GPs providing mental health care, by identifying clusters of GP profiles associated with the management of patients with common or serious mental disorders (CMD or SMD)...

An incentive program for general practitioners to encourage systematic and igh-quality care in chronic disease management was introduced in Australia in 1999...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of a diabetes disease management initiative among TennCare's Medicaid Population...

Evaluation represents a substantial component of the concept of Disease Management Programmes...

..health care providers in German social health insurance face increased financial incentives for implementing disease management and integrated care...

New strategies for periodontal disease management have been emerging as more is learned about the role of the host response...

..The health and policy implications of the marked regional variations in intensity of invasive compared with medical management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are unknown...

To test effects of a web-based decision support tool, the diabetes Disease Management Application (DMA), developed to improve evidence-based management of type 2 diabetes.

..This critical review focuses on the 27 new studies focused on the clinical and cost outcomes research focused on worksites and published between 2008 to 2010...

Depression is a potentially recurring or chronic disorder. The provision of evidence based treatment and effective practice organisation is central to chronic disease management, and these principles can be applied to managing depression.

..This article examines the extent to which GPs are implementing the diabetes 'cycle of care' for patients, and the barriers and enablers to its uptake...

Randomized, controlled trials have shown that nurse-led disease management for patients with heart failure can reduce hospitalizations. Less is known about the cost-effectiveness of these interventions.

..and applied to telehealth care delivery and practice, can promote improved patient self-efficacy with disease management. We present theories applicable for improving health-related behaviors and illustrate how theory-based ..

..This review will summarize the role of ROS in SCD and their potential implication for SCD management...

To examine primary care physicians' perceptions of how disease management programs affect their practices, their relationships with their patients, and overall patient care.

..Data regarding BC MDTs in different regions and countries are scarce...

To assess the effect of TRICARE's asthma, congestive heart failure, and diabetes disease management programs using a scorecard approach. EVALUATION MEASURES: Patient healthcare utilization, financial, clinical, and humanistic outcomes...

Health or disease management (DM) has emerged as a promising solution to improve the quality of healthcare and patient outcomes in a cost-efficient way...

..Growth in outpatient care, in particular, has led to the development of several ambulatory care facilities from which the delivery of care to several populations with a chronic disease will be coordinated...

..We then summarize evidence regarding the efficacy for each model identified...

..CONCLUSIONS: The positive effects of an intervention programme are clearly reduced when it is stopped, due to less strict control of the patients and a decrease in the use of drugs with proven efficacy in HF...

b>Disease management programs (DMP) improve outcomes in patients with heart failure...

Heart failure (HF) disease management programs are widely implemented, but data about their effect on outcome have been inconsistent.

..The comprehensive, independent, stakeholder-driven Canadian Heart Health Strategy and Action Plan (CHHS-AP) was delivered to the Minister of Health on February 24, 2009...

..The authors developed a remote monitoring program as part of HF disease management and prospectively examined the feasibility and resource utilization of monitoring individuals with an ..

..This approach may prove especially useful for research aimed at a clinical audience, since it maintains a clinically relevant focus while giving serious consideration to the patient's perspective...

..This study describes physicians' satisfaction with care for patients with depression before and after the implementation of a primary care-based collaborative care program...

b>Disease management programs are reported to improve clinical and quality-of-life outcomes while simultaneously lowering healthcare costs.

Evaluating the impact of disease management programs on healthcare expenditures for patients with diabetes, depression, heart failure or COPD.

b>Disease management programmes for patients with heart failure have improving the quality-of-life (QOL) of patients with heart failure.

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..Poststroke spasticity research should focus on reducing disability and be considered as part of a continuum of chronic care requirements and should be recognised as a part of a comprehensive poststroke disease management programme.

..Most ineffective programs showed deficiencies in nurse training, study design, or patient selection...

..This article presents a healthcare follow-up plan and proposes a nursing case management within a disease management program as an innovative and promising approach...

The long-term cost-utility of a disease management program (DMP) for adults with asthma was assessed compared to usual care.

..Our aim was to determine the feasibility and value of a protocol-driven approach to patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) who did not exhibit a positive response long after implant...

Chronic disease management is a global health concern. By the time they reach adolescence, 10-15% of all children live with a chronic disease...

..documents the clinical improvements and costs experienced by a purchaser after introduction of a diabetes disease management program...

..This study evaluated the 6-week Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) in Hong Kong...

Although the disease management industry has expanded rapidly, there is little nationally representative data regarding medical and behavioral health disease management programs at the health plan level...

BACKGROUND: Although asthma control is a major outcome in disease management, little is known about its determinants. OBJECTIVES: We sought to study the relationships between asthma control and patient characteristics or asthma management...

An intervention movement in managed care, disease management (DM), is a system of coordinated health care interventions and communication for populations with conditions in which patient self-care efforts are significant...

b>Disease management, a system of coordinated health care interventions and communications for chronically ill populations, relies on patient education and case management to engage individuals in the management of their condition...

Diagnostic or predictive accuracy concerns are common in all phases of a disease management (DM) programme, and ultimately play an influential role in the assessment of programme effectiveness...

..exe. DEMS is a chronic disease management system for patients with diabetes...

This study examined the effectiveness of the German diabetes disease management program (DMP) for patients with varying numbers of other medical conditions with respect to their health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

..Available studies and systematic reviews suggest that elderly patients benefit from disease management programmes (DMPs)...

..Even though the chronic care model has the potential to improve care and reduce costs, several obstacles hinder its widespread adoption...

To evaluate the effect of a disease management programme for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and chronic heart failure (CHF) in primary care.

To document the rise in copayments for patients in disease management programs and to call attention to the inherent conflicts that exist between these 2 approaches to benefit design.

This study assessed the feasibility of a telephonic nurse double-disease management program (DDMP) for patients with depression and congestive heart failure...

..journal articles reporting extraordinary improvements in health status and financial outcomes due to disease management (DM) interventions...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of a disease management model for primary headache by: (1) assessing improvement in patients' quality of life, (2) decreasing headache-related visits to primary care and emergency departments, and (..

The authors systematically evaluated the published evidence to assess the effectiveness of disease management programs in depression.

The evaluation of disease management programmes is necessary and has been made obligatory in Germany by the Fifth Book of Social Code...

..Low literacy is an important barrier for patients with diabetes, but interventions to address low literacy have not been well examined...

..Rockwood created a self-management tool kit and implemented patient goal setting and group visits...

..To determine whether clinical outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes were improved by protocol-driven care in a Diabetes Centre compared with usual outpatient care...

BACKGROUND: Several trials support the usefulness of disease management (DM) for improving clinical outcomes in heart failure (HF)...

This report presents the results of a systematic review of the effectiveness and economic efficiency of disease management and case management for people with diabetes and forms the basis for recommendations by the Task Force on Community ..

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..To evaluate a project to implement guidelines on the management of patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonany disease (COPD) in terms of the health outcomes of these patients...

Different intervention strategies for the optimisation of disease management of diabetes exist and have been shown to increase the proportion of patients receiving screening and examinations and to improve risk factors such as HbA1c, ..

..Research is lacking about the extent to which POs use CMPs or about the degree to which incentives, IT, or other factors are associated with their use...

..The aim was to develop a user-friendly, relevant, and psychometrically sound instrument for the comprehensive evaluation of patient education programs, which can be applied across a broad range of chronic conditions...

..relationships between business managers and clinicians, and purchaser and provider, are valuable in chronic-disease management. Organisations used high-quality clinical information and performance management...

..Results underscore the need to evaluate intervention programs for specific populations and for a new paradigm that focuses on patient-provider partnerships that can improve health outcomes in underserved, poor, rural populations...

..This study investigated the effectiveness of the Chronic Disease Self-management Program (CDSMP) when delivered to for people from Vietnamese, Chinese, Italian and Greek backgrounds living in Victoria, Australia...

Rapid adoption of disease management has outpaced systematic evaluation of its net value in improving health outcomes and mitigating healthcare cost...

..disease that requires daily management to prevent large fluctuations in blood glucose levels and Diabetes disease management as well as biomedical sensor development is prime targets of the NIDDK and NIBIB at NIH...

..disease that requires daily management to prevent large fluctuations in blood glucose levels and Diabetes disease management as well as biomedical sensor development is prime targets of the NIDDK and NIBIB at NIH...

..interventions for immigrant Chinese with T2DM are available and none address the family context of disease management. The proposed project is a part of a research program to improve management of T2DM through a community-..

..interventions for immigrant Chinese with T2DM are available and none address the family context of disease management. The proposed project is a part of a research program to improve management of T2DM through a community-..

..interventions for immigrant Chinese with T2DM are available and none address the family context of disease management. The proposed project is a part of a research program to improve management of T2DM through a community-..

..Patient-Centered Care (PCC) has been implemented for acute ambulatory settings. However, chronic disease management and prevention presents some unique challenges for PCC since the patient is followed by episodic office ..

..Patients in the control condition receive the currently accepted disease management protocol (DM) in a hospital-based surgical oncology service, which all groups receive...

..Our studies will involve diverse and complimentary approaches for disease management. This research will evaluate NB-DGJ as a substrate reduction therapy, neural stem cells (NSCs), as a cross-..

..Our studies will involve diverse and complimentary approaches for disease management. This research will evaluate NB-DGJ as a substrate reduction therapy, neural stem cells (NSCs), as across-..

..Identification of del17p is therefore of substantial importance in CLL disease management and has resulted in the development of risk-adapted therapy approaches to CLL...

..Based on chronic disease management theory and the collaborative care model (CCM), we propose to test a Depression Care Management (DCM) ..

..Improved disease management can reduce morbidity and mortality from diabetes...

..Improved disease management can reduce morbidity and mortality from diabetes...

..the degree to which those biases are associated with disparities in hypertensive patients'perceptions, disease management, and health outcomes...

..the degree to which those biases are associated with disparities in hypertensive patients' perceptions, disease management, and health outcomes...

..and validate novel circulating protein biomarkers to address critical, unmet needs in cardiovascular disease management. Our studies will specifically focus on myocardial ischemia and early injury, for which no suitable and ..

..delivery experiments and decision support modeling to promote joint optimization of vector control and disease management strategies...

..Effective problem-solving, planning for future care and residential needs, and disease management education could address the emotional and behavioral effects of AMD and prevent the consequent adverse ..

..Effective problem-solving, planning for future care and residential needs, and disease management education could address the emotional and behavioral effects of AMD and prevent the consequent adverse ..

..how patients with a primary diagnosis of heart failure, diabetes or hypertension respond to evidence based disease management protocols provided using telemonitoring and in-person home care versus just telephone and in-person home ..

This trial will address the real-world concerns of asthma management through a disease management program (DMP) approach that will assist both the patient and the primary care physician by providing education, additional outpatient ..

..For targeted disease management, local delivery methods have several advantages relative to systemic administration that include delivery of ..

Chronic disease management is the biggest health care problem facing the United States today. Chronic diseases especially affect older adults, 80% of older adults have at least one chronic condition and 50% have two or more (CDC, 2007)...

..and validate novel circulating metabolic biomarkers to address critical, unmet needs in cardiovascular disease management. Our studies will specifically focus on myocardial ischemia and early injury, for which no suitable and ..

..well to glucocorticoids but therapy is associated with a high rate of side effects and no improvement in disease management has been made in the last 25 years...

..The burden of diabetes is considerable, particularly for ethnically diverse populations. Disease management programs that focus on self-management education have been effective in improving metabolic control...

..continuity of care as a core attribute of primary care because it should result in better quality care, disease management, and subsequent health outcomes, especially for older adults with one or more chronic conditions...

..study proposes to expand the traditional role of the home health aide (HHA) by training them to function as disease management coaches (DMCs) based on the model of community health worker (CHW) programs for the chronically ill...

..This research applies two highly innovative interventions, transient elastography and contingent behavioral reinforcement, to the evaluation and management of persons with HIV/HCV coinfection. ..