title: Clinical management where medicine meets management. The American way.
abstract: Close relationships between business managers and clinicians, and purchaser and provider, are valuable in chronic-disease management. Organisations used high-quality clinical information and performance management. Chronic-disease management based on risk-management, proactive case managers and patient education is effective.
authors.affiliation: King's Fund.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019468:Disease Management; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management; D013222:State Medicine; D014481:United States