title: Disease management. The heat and headaches over retooling patient care create hard labor.
abstract: Ken Gross and his colleagues at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound are rearranging the ingredients of patient care for 13,000 diabetics. The process they're using--known as disease management (and a host of other names), is reworking the care process for patients across the country, but it takes a lot of hard work, and some ingenuity.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lumsdon
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008503:Medical Staff; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D014481:United States