Academic internal medicine and managed care--early responses from eight Southeastern departments. Southeastern Study Group.
Eight Southeastern U.S. academic medicine departments have begun collecting data on how managed care is affecting their practice of medicine. Writing for the Southeastern Study Group, James E. Lewis, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, presents information that the group has gathered as a means of attempting to bridge the information gap on managed care's effects on academic practice.
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