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Caring for depression / Kenneth B. Wells ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depression, Mental--Treatment--United States--Cost effectiveness.
- Depression, Mental.
- Depressed persons--Medical care--United States--Cost effectiveness.
- Depressed persons.
- Medical care.
- Depression, Mental--Treatment.
- Cost effectiveness.
- United States.
- National Study of Medical Care Outcomes (U.S.).
- Depressive Disorder--therapy.
- Depression--therapy.
- Outcome Assessment, Health Care.
- Quality Assurance, Health Care.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis.
- Medical Subjects:
- Depressive Disorder--therapy.
- Depression--therapy.
- Outcome Assessment, Health Care.
- Quality Assurance, Health Care.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis.
- Physical Description:
- x, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- One of the major concerns about the changing U.S. health-care systems is whether they will improve or diminish the quality and cost-effectiveness of medical care. The shift from a fee-for-service to a prepaid method of reimbursement has greatly changed the incentives of patients to seek care as well as those of providers to supply it. This change poses a particular challenge for care of depressed patients, a vulnerable population that often does not advocate for its own care. This book documents the inefficiencies of our national systems--prepaid as well as fee-for-service--for treating depression and explores how they can be improved.
- Notes:
- "A RAND study."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674097297
- OCLC:
- 34245992
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