Primary Care Physicians’ Experiences With Case Finding for Practice-Based Care Management

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For decades, numerous care management (CM) programs have evolved in the United States and elsewhere aimed at improving quality of care and/or reducing healthcare costs. Despite these CM programs’ diversity in terms of intervention targets and designs, the identification of patients most likely to benefit—commonly called case finding—is essential for both their effectiveness and cost efficiency.1,2 Therefore, particular attention has been focused on the development and evaluation of practical tools to screen patient populations for potentially eligible participants.3 Because a relatively small percentage of the population generates a disproportionate share of healthcare needs and healthcare spending,4,5 these tools mainly focus on the identification of current or future high-cost individuals.

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Freund T, Wensing M, Geissler S, Peters-Klimm F, Mahler C, Boyd CM, Szecsenyi J. Primary care physicians' experiences with case finding for practice-based care management. Am J Manag Care. 2012 Apr 1;18(4):e155-61.

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