Health Care

Disease Management

A broad approach to appropriate coordination of the entire disease treatment process that often involves shifting away from more expensive inpatient and acute care to areas such as preventive medicine, patient counseling and education, and outpatient care. This concept includes implications of appropriate versus inappropriate therapy on the overall cost and clinical outcome of a particular disease. (From Hosp Pharm 1995 Jul;30(7):596)

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A broad approach to appropriate coordination of the entire disease treatment process that often involves shifting away from more expensive inpatient and acute care to areas such as preventive medicine, patient counseling and education, and outpatient care. This concept includes implications of appropriate versus inappropriate therapy on the overall cost and clinical outcome of a particular disease. (From Hosp Pharm 1995 Jul;30(7):596)

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  • Disease Managements
  • Management, Disease
  • Managements, Disease

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Indexing Annotation

selection of appropriate dis ther processes in relation to cost and clin outcome

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97

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  • Managed Care Programs (1992-1996)
  • Patient Care Planning (1992-1996)

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  1. N04w.590.607w

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W 84.7

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Disease Management. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019468. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019468
  2. Disease Management. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_management_(health)
  3. Disease Management. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q883708