Most disease management programmes are effective

Most disease management programmes are associated with improvements in care. Weingarten and colleagues (p 925) reviewed 118 programmes and found that those directed at providers and patients were associated with significant improvements in provider adherence to guidelines. However, since few studies have directly compared interventions, further research is needed to determine the relative effectiveness and costs of the different strategies.


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