Patient-centered care: a revolution in medicine.
Systems management has the potential to become the catalyst for a private sector revolution that could replace public sector attempts at health care reform. This article will attempt to illustrate the concepts behind systematic, totally integrated, individualized, patient-centered health care--what the authors have coined "systems management of medicine."
Cohen
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National Pharmaceutical Council, Reston, VA 22091, USA.
Naughton
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