Disease management (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 98-27918: The Health care professional's guide to disease management, 1998.

MESH (Disease management: A broad approach to appropriate coordination of the entire disease treatment process that often involves shifting away from more expensive inpatient and acute care to areas such as preventive medicine, patient counseling and education, and outpatient care. This concept includes implications of appropriate versus inappropriate therapy on the overall cost and clinical outcome of a particular disease.)

Here are entered works on a systematic, population-level approach to coordination of treatment that involves shifting from inpatient and acute care to areas such as preventive medicine, patient counseling and education, and outpatient care, and that includes selecting appropriate therapies in relation to costs and clinical outcomes.