Why nobody believes the numbers : distinguishing fact from fiction in population health management /

"The health care industry is fraught with numbers that both human resource professionals and health plan executives cannot believe or understand. Health care vendors routinely show you outcomes reports for your Population Health Improvement programs whose numbers are much closer to fiction than...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lewis, Alfred (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2012]
Temas:
Health maintenance organizations > United States > Evaluation.
Managed care plans (Medical care) > Standards > United States.
Health Care Sector > economics
Costs and Cost Analysis > economics
Health Promotion > economics
Health Status Indicators
Insurance, Health > economics
Assurance-maladie à prépaiement > États-Unis > Évaluation.
Soins intégrés de santé > Normes > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Health maintenance organizations > Evaluation
Managed care plans (Medical care) > Standards
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Chapter 1. Actuaries behaving badly
  • Chapter 2. Plausibility-testing : how to measure outcomes using ingredients
  • Chapter 3. Case studies that flunk every plausibility test known to mankind
  • Chapter 4. Case studies that flunk every plausibility test known to mankind and then some
  • Chapter 5. Case Studies of Where, When, and How Wellness Programs Have Actually Worked
  • Chapter 6. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Savings Clause
  • Chapter 7. Disease management programs that actually work (Pinch me)
  • Chapter 8. Contracting/RFP checklist of do's and don'ts (mostly don'ts)
  • Appendix: the Keys to the numerical kingdom.

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