Managed Care and Modernization: A Practitioner's Guide

Clinicians, consultants, administrators, and others associated with the healthcare industry offer practical guidance on applying managed care techniques to further the British National Health Service's modernization agenda, which they support. They discuss such aspects as an American practitioner's perspective on managed care, the Service's modernization agenda, evidence-based medicine in practice, utilization management in primary and community care, the case management of at- risk older people, mental health, benchmarking in healthcare performance management, and modernizing the healthcare workforce. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)