▪ Abstract Recent developments in basic research suggest that therapeutic breakthroughs
may occur in Alzheimer's disease treatment over the coming decades. To model the …

Health care markets fail to satisfy many requirements for perfect competition, including large
numbers of consumers and firms, zero search costs, and marketability of all goods and …

OBJECTIVE: This study focused on inpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
who were scheduled to begin outpatient care with clinicians who had not previously treated …

OBJECTIVE: The authors examine patterns in utilization of psychiatric inpatient services by
children and adolescents in general hospitals during 1988–1995. METHOD: National …

Patient suicide is an unavoidable occupational hazard of psychiatric practice. Indeed, it is
the rare clinician who does not struggle, even agonize, over the complex task of assessing …

Objective Criteria for psychiatric hospitalization have undergone marked changes. Efforts to
limit length-of-hospitalization risk greater morbidity at discharge and increased needs for …

This article will examine the effects of hospital work on social workers. It will highlight the
events of a focus group that was used to gather data in an attempt to begin to understand the …

▪ Abstract Utilization management encompasses a diverse set of activities designed to
influence the use of health care services and thereby constrain health care resource …

Objectives. The use of utilization management as a cost-containment strategy has led to
debate and controversy within the field of mental health. Little is currently known about how …

PROLOGUE: A question that sparks debate among payers, providers, and analysts of
behavioral health care coverage is: Would increased access to mental health care cause a …