The comprehensive text is designed to be the definitive work on group visits.This book and DVD provides the reader with an authoritative reference for today's major group visit models (SMA's, DIGMAs, and CHCC): what they are; their strengths and weaknesses; and how they can best be used together and in combination with traditional individual office visits." Dr. Noffsinger is the foremost expert on and inventor of group visit models Only comprehensive reference and implementation guide on the market with regard to group visit models The group visit model is not only of interest to physicians: group visits may shape political and health care policy decisions in the near future INDICE: Part 1. Group Visits: The Next Step in Medical Care.- Introductionto group visits.- The Drop-In Group Medical Appointment model: a revolutionary access solution for follow-up visits.- Drop-in group medical appointments: strengths, weaknesses, and real-life examples.- The Cooperative Health Care Clinic Model: following the same group of multi-morbid geriatric patients over time.- The Physicals Shared Medical Appointment model: a revolutionary access solution for private physical examinations.- Physician buy-in: the key to successful shared medical appointment programs.- A comprehensive chronic illness treatment paradigm that makes full use of group visits.- Do not abuse group visits.- Reports, case studies and outcomes data.- Part 2. How to Implement Your Own Group Visit Program.- Twenty essential steps to implementing a successful group visit program.- A 10-week pipeline for launching new DIGMAs and PSMAs.- Suggested readings.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-1413-2
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés