BACKGROUND Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) who participate in diabetes management programs have been shown to have better glycemic control and slower disease progression, although program participation remains low. In the USA, increasing participation in diabetes management support programs may also directly impact provider reimbursement, as payments are increasingly based on pati...

background according to the reports of world health organization (who) and centers for disease control and prevention, the prevalence of chronic hepatitis b infection in iran has decreased from 2-7% in 2001 to 1.3-0.8% in children aged 2-14 years. in 2010 the institute of medicine recommended more comprehensive screening by primary care physicians (pcps) for evaluation, vaccination, and managem...

The Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC) was established in 1992 as an organization among Canada's 4 veterinary colleges, with a mandate to apply veterinary medicine to wildlife management and conservation in Canada. A major function of the CCWHC is nation-wide surveillance of wild animal diseases. Disease surveillance is conceived as consisting of 4 different activities: detecti...

BACKGROUND Heart failure disease management programs can influence medical resource use and quality-adjusted survival. Because projecting long-term costs and survival is challenging, a consistent and valid approach to extrapolating short-term outcomes would be valuable. METHODS We developed the Tools for Economic Analysis of Patient Management Interventions in Heart Failure Cost-Effectiveness...

Scientists and business managers often use strategic thinking in a superficial way. A strategic approach to IPM acts to co-ordinate and facilitate the actions of multidisciplines to understand and achieve the overall goal of the program. Strategic implementation should be flexible to adapt to changing environmental factors which range from the immediate crop regimes to socio-economic factors. U...

Ulrike Kaiser1 Bernhard Arnold2 Michael Pfingsten3 Bernd Nagel4 Johannes Lutz5 Rainer Sabatowski1,6 1Comprehensive Pain Center, University Hospital “Carl Gustav Carus”, Dresden, 2Department of Pain Management, Klinikum Dachau, Dachau, 3Pain Clinic, University Medicine, University of Göttingen, 4Day Care Unit, DRK Pain Center, Mainz, 5Interdisciplinary Pain Center, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Bad B...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the second leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for 17 million deaths in 2013. More than 80% of these cases were in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although the risk factors for the development of CVD are similar throughout the world, the evolving change in lifestyle and health behaviours in LMICs-including tobacco use, decreased physical ac...

Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECT OF MEDICAID DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS ON MEDICAID EXPENDITURES Keith Kranker Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Mark Duggan Department of Economics Disease Management (DM) programs for Medicaid patients with chronic diseases have become very popular, with a majority of states having introduced some type of DM program in the last decade. These p...