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  2. Informal coercion - Wikipedia

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    [5]: 5 Healthcare workers felt informal coercion was more acceptable in cases of mania or acute psychosis. [ 5 ] : 7 There was a degree of cognitive dissonance surrounding the practice, healthcare workers described behaviour matching formal definitions of informal coercion, but were reluctant to label their behaviour as coercive.

  3. Health systems engineering - Wikipedia

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    Health systems engineering or health engineering (often known as health care systems engineering (HCSE)) is an academic and a pragmatic discipline that approaches the health care industry, and other industries connected with health care delivery, as complex adaptive systems, and identifies and applies engineering design and analysis principles in such areas.

  4. Labor induction - Wikipedia

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    Labor induction is the procedure where a medical professional starts the process of labor (giving birth) instead of letting it start on its own.Labor may be induced (started) if the health of the mother or the baby is at risk.

  5. Supplier-induced demand - Wikipedia

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    Poor monitoring and control, the fee-for-service payment system, insurance companies' limited role, insufficient monitoring of insurance companies, the educational nature of our health centers, health-care providers' interests, and the information gap that exists between patients and providers were all significant factors in the induced demand ...

  6. Health systems science - Wikipedia

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    Health systems science (HSS) is a foundational platform and framework for the study and understanding of how care is delivered, how health professionals work together to deliver that care, and how the health system can improve patient care and health care delivery. [1]

  7. Integrated care - Wikipedia

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    Integrated care may be seen as a response to the fragmented delivery of health and social services being an acknowledged problem in many health systems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This model of care is working towards moving away from a siloed and referral -based format of care to a team-based model.

  8. Case management (US healthcare system) - Wikipedia

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    The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...

  9. Integrated delivery system - Wikipedia

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    Alain Enthoven, the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, argues that IDSs align incentives and resources better than most healthcare delivery systems, leading to improved medical care quality while controlling costs. [8]