Concepedia

Abstract

Tables and Exhibits.Acknowledgments.The Contributors.Foreword (William L. Roper).Preface (Alain C. Enthoven, Laura A. Tollen).1. Prepaid Groups and Organized Delivery Systems: Promise, Performance, and Potential (Stephen M. Shortell and Julie Schmittdiel).2. Systems and Results: The Basis for Quality Care in Prepaid Practice (Donald M. Berwick and Sachin H. Jain).3. The Clinical and Economic Performance of Prepaid Practice (Kenneth H. Chuang, Harold S. Luft, and R. Adams Dudley).4. Prepaid Practice and Health Care Policy (Jon B. Christianson and George Avery).5. Technology Assessment, Deployment, and Implementation in Prepaid Practice (David M. Eddy).6. Managing the Pharmacy Benefit in Prepaid Practice (William H. Campbell, Richard E. Johnson, and Sharon L. Levine).7. Prepaid Practice and Medical Workforce Policy (Jonathan P. Weiner).8. Prepaid Practice and Health Care Research (Raymond Fink and Merwyn R. Greenlick).9. Physician Leadership: Group Respons ibility as Key to Accountability in Medicine (Francis J. Crosson, Allan J. Weiland, and Robert A. Berenson).10. The Limits of Prepaid Practice (James C. Robinson).11. The Relationship Between Prepaid Practice and the Employer Community (Helen Darling).12. Open the Markets and Level the Playing Field (Alain C. Enthoven).Editors' Introduction to the Epilogue.Epilogue: Prepaid Practice and Computerized Caregiver Support Tools (George C. Halvorson).Appendix: The Origins of Prepaid Practice in the United States (Jon A. Stewart).Index.