Pharmacy benefit management, cost-effectiveness analysis and drug formulary decisions

Ten years ago, a review of U.S. center-based infant and toddler care found that not even one state met federally recommended standards of quality with regard to group composition, staff training, and program of care. The present analysis indicates that little progress has been made since then. While most states currently require centers to follow appropriate practice guidelines, standards for staff training were rated as unacceptable in almost all states. Findings are discussed in terms of the interrelation of quality dimensions and the ongoing importance of improved state-level infant and toddler child-care regulation.     

Physician practice management companies

Physicians are increasingly courted by insurers and hospitals as partners for integrated delivery systems. A new integrative option has emerged for physicians--the physician practice management company (PPMC). PPMCs have formed in response to several supply and demand factors. They hold out great promise for physicians, but closer scrutiny suggests that this promise has not yet been realized. PPMCs warrant managerial and research attention due to their contracting potential as physician networks in dealing with employers and payers.     

What you should know about dental practice management companies

The unfavourable tuberculosis situation in the corrective labour facilities affects the main rates of tuberculosis in the region. Presently, the total registered cases of tuberculosis among prisoners are 36.7 times as high as those in the age-matched general population of the Sverdlovsk Region. The rates of relapses, incidence, death due to tuberculosis show 72.0-, 36.1-, and 10.4-fold increases, respectively. Almost every 10 persons from the labour corrective facilities suffer from active tuberculosis. In the past decade, the growth rates of main tuberculosis parameters in the corrective labour facilities were much higher (total tuberculosis morbidity by 2.1 times, relapses by 2.1 times, general morbidity by 1.7 times, and total tuberculosis mortality by 2.8 times) than those in the region's general population. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis was not virtually detected in the labour corrective facilities) due to the lack of special diagnostic methods.     

浅谈强化成本管理与矿山经济效益

通过对遂昌金矿成本管理现状进行分析,提出了成本管理对策,为矿山企业提高经济效益指出了有效途径。     

强化企业管理推进公司发展

通过建设企业文化 ,强化企业管理、注重人才培养来提高攀钢的经济效益 ,增强企业的战斗力     

加强财务管理提高企业效益

财务管理是企业管理中的一个子系统,在企业管理中处于中心地位;介绍了目前企业财务管理的现状以及如何加强财务管理等内容.     

对国外五大知名钢铁企业管理考察分析报告

与前几年相比,目前钢铁企业生产经营中的困难更加突出,钢铁行业正处于困难时期。日子好过时领导好当;困难时期企业经营管理头绪更多,稍有不慎,不良效果兑现很快。而且,今后怎么办？     

提高管理水平 促进企业节能减排

一、管理节能的重要性节约能源是国家发展经济的一项长远战略方针,也是钢铁工业实现可持续发展的基本原则。节约能源和环境保护是钢铁企业应尽的社会则任,是钢铁企业管理的核心内容。钢铁企业应当按照国家标准进行管理节能,不断加大对节约能源和环境保护的投入,全面推行清洁生产,坚持绿色制造,关键是能耗和环境保护及资源综合利用率要达到国家标准的要求,以及追求达到国内外先进水平。     

爆破一体化企业钻爆作业及质量管理探析

爆破一体化改革是中国民爆企业和爆破公司做强、做大的必然战略选择,囿于传统爆破企业质量管理的观念和习惯,中国爆破一体化企业质量管理依然处于落后状况.通过分析爆破一体化企业主营业务钻爆产品及其属性,归纳了钻爆产品的技术及质量指标,阐明了影响钻爆作业流程质量的六大方面因素,提出了钻爆作业流程质量管理方法,从而为爆破一体化企业...     

Therapeutic benefit of touch-massage in the overall management of demented elderly

This detailed research tries out a "Touch-Massage" action about the studies of reflex and estimates the repercussion this action may have as regards the abnormal behaviour (either in connection with wandering and/or restlessness and/or shouting) of the Elderly who stay in a same place and show cognitive deficiency in connection with an Alzheimer's dementia. In order to check the "intra personal" consequences this action may have, 4 elderly people were chosen and an experimental estimate with different levels was made with them. Two sessions a week of 30 minutes each during 6 months (51 sessions) were suggested that is to say a total of 204 sessions. The effects of this approach regarding the different abnormal behaviour are estimated on one hand from a special clinical grid which assess the different reactions, verbal or not, which occurred during the session. On the other hand the effects are observed directly fifteen minutes after the session. The results are explained, first, for each person and compared between each other; then they are explained according to a collective way regarding the 4 old people. What emerges from all that is that for the whole sessions which were proposed, the activity was accepted at 95%. During the session, the signs showing physical relaxation (59%), sleepiness (34%), research of different manners to communicate with us (59%), stop or decrease of the abnormal behaviour (79%) prove the actual benefit the activity brings during thirty minutes. Fifteen minutes after the session, the signs showing physical relaxation (52%), sleepiness (42%), research of different manners to communicate with us (23%), stop or decrease of the abnormal behaviour (70%) are always significant. In view of the above results, we can stay this new approach using the activity of "Touch Massage" brings a further possibility of nursing care and can help to answer the question "how to take in charge every day an elderly demented patient".     

效益来自质量 质量始自管理

根据唐山钢铁股份有限公司的实际情况,在质量管理方面,逐步摸索出一条有唐钢特色的质量效益型发展道路.     

提高产品质量是强化企业管理增加经济效益的有效途径

本文以适应市场经济的特点出发 ,从增强领导层的质量意识、运用先进的管理方法和依靠科技进步等方面阐述了提高产品质量是强化企业管理、增加经济效益的有效途径     

Pharmacy and tobacco

With the recognition that smoking begins in youth and that tobacco products are readily available to those under 18 years of age, new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations restrict the sale, distribution, promotion, and advertising of cigarettes to minors. The objective is to decrease the use of tobacco by young people and consequently reduce the future morbidity and mortality from tobacco. Pharmacists currently have three choices with regard to the sale of tobacco in pharmacies: display and sell tobacco products, refuse to sell tobacco products, or make tobacco products available but counsel on smoking cessation. Each choice, as well as the impact of the new FDA regulations on pharmacy, is discussed.     

Effects of tuition payment and involvement on benefit from a management development program.

Investigated the effects of participants' investments of tuition, time, and effort on benefit from a management development program. Measures of benefit consisted of a summated rating scale and the economic scale of the Allport-Vernon Study of Values. Ss were 99 industrial executives in a 5-yr program. Those who paid part of their tuition, spent relatively more time in the program, and found the program difficult, benefited more. It is concluded that programs which do not require commitment and effort are not likely to achieve their immediate value objectives. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)