January 1, 2003
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The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, conducted a 2000 study of junior medical students' educational activities - instructional time and types of teachers - in non-university teaching hospitals.
March 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
In 2000, the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute of Portland, Ore. held a conference on cost-effectiveness analysis and managed care.
May 1, 2003
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From 1997 to 2001, researchers from the New York Academy of Medicine and Yale University collaborated in an investigation of the potential of managed care organizations to benefit the communities in which they operate.
June 1, 2003
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From 1998 to 2001, Spartanburg, S.C.-based Hedrick Smith Productions, headed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith, produced two PBS programs examining managed care and other major health care issues. They also conducted an outreach campaign in connection with the programs.
January 1, 2001
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From 1995 to 1998, researchers at Stanford University looked at how managed care penetration in given geographic areas affected the diffusion and use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technology that allows physicians to obtain very clear pictures of patients' internal organs and internal structures without invasive procedures.
January 1, 2001
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From 1995 to 1998, People-to-People Health Foundation, Millwood, Va., examined the management tools and strategies that managed care organizations use to influence technologies used by primary care physicians — including how to prescribe drugs and make referrals to specialists.
November 1, 2001
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From 1998 to 2000, staff at the American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly surveyed managed care plans on their current practices for resolving enrollee-plan disputes. The project emphasized disputes involving older people and recommended workable options for improving dispute resolution.
November 1, 2001
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The Yale University School of Medicine examined how working people with chronic illnesses and functional limitations fare under various forms of prepaid managed health care plans.
March 1, 2000
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The Child Welfare League of America, Inc., researched, produced, and disseminated two practical guidebooks for those who care for and work on behalf of children in the foster care system.
March 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Bernstein produced a report evaluating state legislative initiatives intended to preserve the autonomy of the physician-patient relationship within the new cost and clinical constraints of managed care.