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Effects Of Managed Care On The Health And Health-Care Of The Non-Elderly With Diabetes, Meihua Lu
Effects Of Managed Care On The Health And Health-Care Of The Non-Elderly With Diabetes, Meihua Lu
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation attempts to examine the quality effect of managed care plans (as compared with traditional fee-for-service plans, or FFS) on the health outcome and health care use of patients with diabetes. As the number of diabetics is growing rapidly with many of them are relying on managed care plans, knowing better the effects of different plans on health status and health care utilization is of great interest and significance to consumers, employers, and policymakers, especially at a time that universal health care is under being implemented.
Using up-to-date data from MEPS, a nationally representative survey, I compared 484 HMO …
Development And Validation Of A Measurement Scale To Analyze The Environment For Evidence-Based Medicine Learning And Practice By Medical Residents, Fangqiong Mi
Wayne State University Dissertations
A growing number of residency programs are instituting curricula to include the component of evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles and process. However, these curricula may not be able to achieve the optimal learning outcomes, perhaps because various contextual factors are often overlooked when EBM training is being designed, developed, and implemented. The purpose of the study was to develop and validate an instrument, the EBM Environment Scale, to analyze the environment for EBM learning and practice as perceived by medical residents.
The development of the EBM Environment Scale underwent the process of content domain identification, item generation, review by content experts …