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Managed Care Programs |
Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS. |
Case Management, Insurance,Insurance Case Management,Managed Health Care Insurance Plans,Managed Care,Care, Managed,Managed Care Program,Management, Insurance Case,Program, Managed Care,Programs, Managed Care |
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| D010344 |
Patient Advocacy |
Promotion and protection of the rights of patients, frequently through a legal process. |
Patient Ombudsmen,Patient Representatives,Clinical Ombudsman,Patient Ombudsman,Advocacy, Patient,Ombudsman, Clinical,Ombudsman, Patient,Ombudsmen, Patient,Patient Representative,Representative, Patient,Representatives, Patient |
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| D004992 |
Ethics, Medical |
The principles of professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the physician in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families. |
Medical Ethics |
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| D006801 |
Humans |
Members of the species Homo sapiens. |
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man |
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| D012935 |
Social Justice |
An interactive process whereby members of a community are concerned for the equality and rights of all. |
Food Justice,Common Good,Justice,Obligations of Society,Good, Common,Justice, Food,Justice, Social |
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| D015276 |
Health Care Rationing |
Planning for the equitable allocation, apportionment, or distribution of available health resources. |
Allocation of Health Care Resources,Allocation of Healthcare Resources,Rationing, Health Care,Healthcare Rationing,Healthcare Resources Allocation,Healthcare Resources Allocations,Rationing, Healthcare,Resources Allocation, Healthcare |
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| D028761 |
Withholding Treatment |
Withholding or withdrawal of a particular treatment or treatments, often (but not necessarily) life-prolonging treatment, from a patient or from a research subject as part of a research protocol. The concept is differentiated from REFUSAL TO TREAT, where the emphasis is on the health professional's or health facility's refusal to treat a patient or group of patients when the patient or the patient's representative requests treatment. Withholding of life-prolonging treatment is usually indexed only with EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE, unless the distinction between withholding and withdrawing treatment, or the issue of withholding palliative rather than curative treatment, is discussed. |
Withdrawing Care,Cessation of Treatment,Withdrawing Treatment,Care, Withdrawing,Treatment Cessation,Treatment Cessations,Treatment, Withdrawing,Treatment, Withholding,Treatments, Withdrawing,Treatments, Withholding,Withdrawing Treatments,Withholding Treatments |
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| D035502 |
Trust |
Confidence in or reliance on a person or thing. |
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| D040841 |
Resource Allocation |
Societal or individual decisions about the equitable distribution of available resources. |
Allocation of Resources,Allocative Efficiency,Allocation, Resource,Efficiency, Allocative,Resources Allocation |
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