title: Disease management: a challenge to subacute care.
abstract: Disease management (DM) poses a tremendous challenge to the continued survival and growth of subacute care. Thus, it is imperative that subacute care providers know what DM entails and integrate those protocols being developed, tested and implemented by DM firms and managed care organizations (MCOs).
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Stahl
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D019467:Subacute Care / Q000458:organization & administration*