Documenting participation in an employer-sponsored disease management program: Selection, exclusion, attrition, and active engagement as possible metrics

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 447-454

  Lynch, Wendy D ^a,b   Chen, Chin Yu ^c,e   Bender, Joel ^d   Edington, Dee W ^c  

^a Health as Human Capital Foundation   (United States)

^b Lynch Consulting Ltd   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Health Management Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIOMETRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCUMENTATION; EMPLOYER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DOCUMENTATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646840838     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000214404.95516.81     Document Type: Article

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