Management care process

Like Medical Care, Nursing Care etcetera PC consists of core components the philosophy, the patient care process, and the practical management system to support the practice. PC was developed from Clinical Pharmacy Services (see below) with more focus on the patients need and on the practitioners (pharmacist) responsibilities towards the patient and the outcome of the drug therapy. To be able to show the improved process of care a categorisation system for drug-related problems was developed. The taxonomy has been further developed into seven categories (Cipolle et al. 1998). This can be used for practice and in studies. 

Expand the Responsible Care Process Safety Code to emphasize the need for managing reactive hazards. Ensure that ... 

Both ACC and SOCMA have programs to promote good practices among their member companies in the area of chemical process safety.59 In 1989, ACC developed the Responsible Care Process Safety Code60 to prevent fires, explosions, and accidental chemical releases. The code and its accompanying resource guidelines include a series of recommended management practices. 

ACC has published a resource guide to aid member companies in implementing the Responsible Care Process Safety Code (ACC, 1989). Although the guide provides suggestions on how to continually improve process safety, it does not prescribe how to comply with the code. It does not list specific requirements for reactive hazard management, but does require management systems to be developed-several of which could apply to reactive hazards as determined by each member company. 

The American Chemistry Council recognizes this area in Management Practice 5, Information Sharing, as an integral part of the code of Responsible Care Process Safety Code of Management Practices. 

As previously stated, the American Chemistry Council also recognizes this concept as an integral part of the code of Responsible Care , Process Safety Code of Management Practices, Companies should openly share nonproprietary results from internal process safety incident investigations and related research through the auspices of trade and professional associations, and other networking opportunities. Other organizations should strive to benefit from the lessons learned by others and keep abreast of latest developments and safety alerts. 

Is a system in place that evaluates the usefulness and advisability of sharing this information with other companies in a similar business, per Responsible Care Process Safety Code of Management Practices 4.3 and 5 ... 

The DUE process allows the health care organization to use the results of the evaluations to compare the quality of care delivered by practitioners. This peer evaluation is often used by managed care organizations to encourage physician compliance to use formulary drugs, generic substitution, and clinical prachce guidelines. 

Steps 9 and 10 involve assessing the effectiveness of the actions taken in Step 8 a continuous quality improvement (CQl) process (see Chapter 14) and communicating the findings, actions, and follow-up to the appropriate individuals involved. These individuals may be the patients, the provider, or the managed care organization. 

All health care professions have a unique philosophy, process of care, and practice management system. The commonly held purpose of a practice is its philosophy. The knowledge and expertise that a health care professional brings to care for a patient are done so within a common patient care process. The practice management system is vital to support the practice by facilitating application of the philosophy and process of care. By... 

PBMs are also characterized by a series of relationships among many stakeholders payers, providers, consumers, and pharmaceutical companies. Payers include employers, employer coalitions, insurers, managed care organizations, Medicare, and Medicaid. Typically, they pay the net prescription cost and a per claim or transaction fee to the PBM for claim processing. Money and information flow back to the payers in the form of rebates and a variety of utilization reports. 

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