title: Managed care--evolution or revolution?
abstract: What are the key influences on today's highly competitive health care market? Are they relevant to medical devices and will they affect device manufacturers? This article attempts to answer these key questions and suggests that Managed Care will become the single most important issue in the next five years.
authors.affiliation: Medical Device Consultancy, Cardiff, UK. trevor@lewlink.demon.co.uk
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D004465:Economic Competition; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000592:standards / Q000600:supply & distribution; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008389:Marketing of Health Services