Managed care utilization management

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Expert opinion is a source, frequently elicited by survey, that is used to obtain information where no or few data are available. For example, in our experience with a multicountry evaluation of health care resource utilization in atrial fibrillation, very few country-specific published data were available on this subject. Thus the decision-analytic model was supplemented with data from a physician expert panel survey to determine initial management approach (rate control vs. cardioversion) first-, second-, and third-line agents doses and durations of therapy type and frequency of studies that would be performed to initiate and monitor therapy type and frequency of adverse events, by body system and the resources used to manage them place of treatment and adverse consequences of lack of atrial fibrillation control and cost of these consequences, for example, stroke, congestive heart failure. This method may also be used in testing the robustness of the analysis [30]. 

Many patients are turning to dietary supplements in an effort to take a more active part in the management of their health. Whether or not health care practitioners condone this practice, pharmacists must be familiar with these products. Pharmacists should be aware of the safety and toxicity issues surrounsding these products. They cannot afford to jeopardize patients trust and respect by dismissing the potential utility of dietary supplements. Rather, pharmacists need to encourage patients to be open and honest about their dietary supplement use so the highest degree of health care service may be provided. 

Therefore, risk management utilizing protective clothing should be considered carefully, as estimation of the reduction of external exposure using protective clothing may overestimate the protective potential. 

Although radiation alone has been utilized historically in the treatment of medically inoperable esophageal cancers and continues to be used today in the palliative setting, the standard of care for the nonsurgical management of localized esophageal cancer remains concurrent chemoradiation. For those patients who are unable to tolerate surgery or... 

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