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| Medical services in social health maintenance organizations | | Author(s) | Charlene Harrington, Marty Lynch, Robert J Newcomer |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 33, no 6, 1993 |
| Pages | pp 790-800 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Administration of care ; Performance ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | An evaluation of medical services for older members in the Social Health Maintenance Organization (SHMO) demonstrations is presented. The SHMOs generally failed to offer special geriatric medical services to the frail elderly, and the co-ordination of SHMO medical services with the special long-term care and case management services offered by the SHMOs was limited. These limitations led to some problems for older people in terms of access, continuity of care, and satisfaction. Variations in medical services occurred across sites, but generally the SHMOs established by mature HMO organisations appeared to offer more efficient and effective medical services than newly formed SHMOs. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980317229 A |
| Classmark | L: Q: 5H: 7T |
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