RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Disease Management: Panacea, Another False Hope, or Something in Between?
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 257
OP 260
DO 10.1370/afm.649
VO 5
IS 3
A1 John P. Geyman
YR 2007
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/5/3/257.abstract
AB Disease management is being promulgated by many policy makers, legislators, and a burgeoning new disease management industry as the next major hope, together with information technology and consumer-directed health care, to bring cost containment to runaway costs of health care. Many expect quality improvement as well. The concept is being aggressively marketed to employers, health plans, and government in the wake of managed care’s failure to contain costs. There is widespread confusion, however, about what disease management is and what impact it will have on patients, physicians, and the health care system itself. In this article I give a current snapshot of disease management by briefly addressing (1) its rationale and growth, (2) its track record concerning costs and quality of care, and (3) its impacts on primary care.