corner
Healthy Skepticism
Join us to help reduce harm from misleading health information.
Increase font size   Decrease font size   Print-friendly view   Print
Register Log in

Healthy Skepticism Library item: 9187

Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.

 

Publication type: Journal Article

Woodward BW.
Disease management: opportunity for pharmaceutical care?
Hosp Pharm 1995 Jul; 30:(7):596,


Abstract:

Most of the efforts to control health care costs in the U.S. have been based upon control of the more expensive components of health care. These efforts have typically failed or fallen short, and some studies even indicate that certain efforts to reduce costs of drugs have significantly increased other medical costs, resulting in overall increases in cost of care. A dramatic new concept called disease management advocates a much broader approach to appropriate treatment of the entire disease process. This often involves shifting care and necessary dollars away from expensive inpatient and acute care to areas such as preventive medicine, patient counseling and education, and outpatient care. This concept has great potential impact regarding drugs and drug therapy because of the implications of appropriate versus inappropriate therapy on the overall cost and clinical outcome of a particular disease. Managed care organizations, prescription benefit management companies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers all are very interested in this promising new paradigm for patient care. Likewise the concept possibly has great implications for pharmacists’ successful implementation of pharmaceutical care. In this regard, disease management may have the potential to prove both clinical and economic value of appropriate drug therapy and related pharmaceutical care far beyond the cost of the drug. Some suggestions for pharmacists interested in pursuing the concept of disease management are included at the end of this article.

Keywords:
Chronic Disease/therapy Continuity of Patient Care/trends Drug Costs Drug Industry/economics Drug Industry/trends Drug Therapy/economics Drug Therapy/trends* Humans Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services Managed Care Programs/trends Patient Compliance Pharmacy Service, Hospital/economics Pharmacy Service, Hospital/trends* Therapeutics/economics Therapeutics/trends* United States

 

  Healthy Skepticism on RSS   Healthy Skepticism on Facebook   Healthy Skepticism on Twitter

Please
Click to Register

(read more)

then
Click to Log in
for free access to more features of this website.

Forgot your username or password?

You are invited to
apply for membership
of Healthy Skepticism,
if you support our aims.

Pay a subscription

Support our work with a donation

Buy Healthy Skepticism T Shirts


If there is something you don't like, please tell us. If you like our work, please tell others.

Email a Friend








Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909