Current strategies for managing long term conditions emphasise two elements: delivering interventions defined by evidence-based condition-specific protocols of best practice; and developing teams of multiple professionals to manage the level and complexity of demand thus created [ 13].
The New York redesign gives managed-care companies, rather than the government or an independent agency, main responsibility for determining eligibility for managed long-term care.
The state also has appointed a private company to determine who is eligible for managed long-term care, which will prevent health plans from peremptorily ruling people out.
Still, the size of the layoff was a shock, the nurse said, describing a tearful scene in the Brooklyn office on Wednesday in which everyone hired since January 2012 for managed long-term care was terminated, including 58 nurses, eight social workers, nine physical therapists and many office managers — as much as 40 percent of each team handling such cases.
A systematic method has been developed for managing long-term collision risk posed to operational satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
We present our 4-year experience with the thermo-expandable shape memory alloy Memokath 051 stent (Engineers and Doctors of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark) for managing long-term ureteral obstruction.
And to be clear, it could have, and should have, gone better for me, if the medical system were better set up for managing long-term opioid use.
There is a pressing need to identify and validate minimally invasive biomarkers for CAN to serve as early predictors of graft loss and as metrics for managing long-term immunosuppression.
In addition, there needs to be acknowledgement and expectation that support for managing long-term conditions comes from both outside and within the health system [ 43].
Brokerage firms are no longer satisfied with managing long-term investments for their clients.
While their initial work in diagnosis often sets the trajectory of care for a patient, they also manage long-term conditions, guard the public's health and advocate preventive care measures.
