A Comprehensive Care Experience Level (CCEL) system that is aligned with Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) standards, promotes comprehensive care and prevention, and addresses flaws observed in previous Relative Value Units (RVU)-based programs has been implemented at the School of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University since 2011. The purpose of this article is to report on t...

About the author: I am a community pediatrician and since January 2006 have served as chief medical officer of Children’s Health Fund (CHF), a national not-for-profit organization based in New York that supports a national network of 24 programs that provide comprehensive health care services to medically high-risk children and families. Patients served include the homeless, those who live in r...

Background Increasing evidence has suggested that well-resourced programs are more likely than low-resourced programs to deliver comprehensive care to individuals with cooccurring conditions and achieve greater client access and retention. But there is limited understanding of the service delivery process that allows high-capacity programs to reduce their wait times for treatment entry and thei...

Purpose The purpose of this report is to respond to a JSC request to WOAP to develop an outline of an action plan on surface fluxes and a timetable for its full development in collaboration with WCRP sub-programs. All relevant programs at the last JSC meeting (GEWEX, CLIVAR, CLIC, SOLAS, WGNE and GCOS Panels) expressed interest in the process and, together with a representative of IGBP and othe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The use of back school as a treatment for low back pain is widespread, but determining the efficacy of this approach is complicated by variations in back schools and study methods across clinical trials. The purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis to synthesize existing evidence on the efficacy of back school as either a primary intervention or a part of a co...

Although many employers offer some components of worksite-based population health management (PHM), most do not yet invest in comprehensive programs. This hesitation to invest in comprehensive programs may be attributed to numerous factors, such as other more pressing business priorities, reluctance to intervene in the personal health choices of employees, or insufficient funds for employee hea...