Effects of Cost-Containment Strategies Within Managed Care on Continuity of the Relationship between Patients with Depression and Their Primary Care Providers

Medical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1075-1085

  Meredith, Lisa S ^a   Sturm, Roland ^a   Camp, Patti ^a   Wells, Kenneth B ^a,b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuity of care; Depression; Managed care; Patient provider relationship; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST; COST CONTROL; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; COST CONTROL; COST SHARING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, PSYCHIATRIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0035491429     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200110000-00005     Document Type: Article

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