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Managed Care May 2007 Rachel M. Renshaw	Keys to Diabetes Control? Patience, Persistence, and Perseverance Careful attention to a comprehensive treatment plan could forestall or prevent the need to add drugs and costs to a patient's regimen.
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American Journal of Nursing October 2005 Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins	Self-Management of Chronic Kidney Disease Effective management of this disease requires the patient to be the principal illness manager and this skill requires the nurses guidance and support.
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Managed Care June 2003 Alison Johnson	Measuring DM's Net Effect Is Harder Than You Might Think Disease management is God's gift to managed care. Or is it? Here is a discussion of areas that make evaluating a DM program a complex, if not ineffable, proposition.
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CIO April 15, 2004 Prahalad & Ramaswamy	How to Put Your Customers to Work It's getting harder for companies to sustain growth and create value on their own. It's time to loop customers into the act.
BusinessWeek January 30, 2006 Ellen Hoffman	Smart Gadgets For Seniors New high-tech devices that keep tabs on vital signs, level of activity, medications, and more can help the elderly maintain their independence.
Fast Company December 2009 Tim McKeough	Corventis's PiiX Monitor Promises to Predict Heart Failure It may look like a Band-Aid, but Corventis's PiiX monitor promises to predict heart failure.
Nursing May 2010 Debra Castner	Understanding the stages of chronic kidney disease This article will help you to recognize CKD and understand its stages so you can help your patient to modify risk factors, prevent further kidney damage, and manage complications. First, consider the scope of the problem.
Managed Care March 2005	'This Country Cannot Continue With the System We Now Have' As a vice president of Pfizer Health Solutions, a major disease management company, John Sory knows how difficult it is to bring systematic care to the chronically ill. He discusses Pfizer's work with Florida's Medicaid program.
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Nursing November 2009 Christine Kessler	Glycemic control in the hospital: How tight should it be? Based on recent studies, the answer to that question remains controversial. This article will explore this issue and present current best practices for caring for a patient in the hospital who has diabetes or hyperglycemia.
Managed Care December 2003 Martin Sipkoff	Health Plans Begin To Address Chronic Care Management As with so much else in health care, observing protocols, analyzing data, and rethinking benefit designs are important.
Nursing September 2010 Margaret M. Bolton	Sounding the alarm about metabolic syndrome Any health problem that affects a third of American adults is sure to impact your nursing practice. Metabolic syndrome, a growing and commonly silent condition, poses a significant public health crisis.
CIO August 1, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet	Paperless Medicine Saving Money, Saving Lives Health-care CIOs face intense pressure to install electronic medical records and order-entry systems, in spite of physician resistance and large up-front costs. Here's how early adopters are overcoming the obstacles.
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IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Robert N. Charette	Dying for Data A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs -- but how do you build one? The many technical, social, and political issues are also formidable.
HBS Working Knowledge November 17, 2003 Martha Lagace	Curbing the Costs of Disease Runaway healthcare costs are driven by multiple symptoms. A conference panel tells how the industry as a whole can get better treatment.
Managed Care October 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Asheville's Legacy: Pharmacy Moves From Dispensing to Clinical Management It is an idea whose time has finally come: Today's clinical pharmacists are involved in virtually all aspects of medical care.
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American Family Physician October 15, 2005 Coleman & Newton	Supporting Self-Management in Patients with Chronic Illness Family physicians can support patient self-management by structuring patient-physician interactions to identify problems from the patient perspective, making office environment changes that remove self-management barriers, and providing education individually and through available community self-management resources.
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Nurse Practitioner May 2011 Chris Garvey	Best Practices in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a common, preventable, treatable, and often progressive disorder characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Havas & Donner	Tight Control of Type 1 Diabetes: Recommendations for Patients Physicians play an important role in helping type 1 diabetes patients make essential lifestyle changes to help reduce the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications.
BusinessWeek October 22, 2009 Arlene Weintraub	Tough Love, Lower Health Costs A UnitedHealthcare plan offers incentives to employees who strictly control their diabetes.
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Managed Care October 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Not So Much of a Reach: Let Sick Pay Less for Drugs The idea is radical and simple: Those who need medication the most should pay the least. There is evidence that this is cost-effective.
American Journal of Nursing November 2011 Christine L. Cutugno	The 'Graying' of Trauma Care: Addressing Traumatic Injury in Older Adults Evidence-based strategies for managing trauma and its complications in this population.
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HBS Working Knowledge November 17, 2003 Martha Lagace	The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management Diabetes is a tough disease to tackle. A case-study discussion led by Harvard professor Nancy Beaulieu asked why it is so complex for business and society, and what might be done to curb its incidence.
Managed Care November 2003 Gold & Kongstvedt	How Broadening Disease Management's Focus Helped Shrink One Plan's Costs Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and American Healthways score a hat trick by improving outcomes and satisfaction while saving money.
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American Family Physician June 1, 2003 Marchiando & Elston	Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring: Clinical Utility in the Family Practice Setting Discriminate use of this technology in specific clinical circumstances assists in identifying patients at risk for hypertension and may result in improved outcomes in a subset of patients.
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Nurse Practitioner May 2011 Stacey A. Seggelke	Hitting the target for inpatient glycemic management An understanding of glycemic treatment options for hospitalized patients is essential for good patient outcomes.
Managed Care May 2004 Frank Diamond	Care Coordination Strikes Right Chord Care coordination -- which, for the purposes of this article, means optimal management of people with multiple chronic diseases to improve outcomes and cut costs -- just suddenly seems a lot more doable. The thing that may make care coordination work this time, is technology.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006 Rhey et al.	Technology for Life One of the most powerful health-care instruments is sitting right on your desk. Your PC can be the link to resources that can prevent illness and help you reach your exercise goals, battle bad habits, and communicate more effectively with your doctor.
Managed Care November 2003 Martin Sipkoff	9 Ways To Reduce Unwarranted Variation Unwarranted variation in medical practice is costly -- and deadly. When the approach in one town is major surgery and in another, it's watchful waiting, you know there's a problem.