Behavioral Interventions for Patients with Major Depression and Severe COPD

In the coming decade, as the fee-for-service model of healthcare financing wanes, primary care physician incomes are expected to expand at the expense of hospitals and specialists whose profitability is based on remuneration for tests and procedures. This assumes that enhanced primary care will be able to modify the cost of care by reducing hospitalizations, length of stay in nursing and rehabilitation facilities, emergency department visits, and frequency of diagnostic testing. Medical conditions whose costs are judged to be the most modifiable include obstructive chronic pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, back pain, and arthritis.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Invited Perspective Source Type: research