Re: Outcomes Research in Managed Care

[Ken Cline]

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 address@hidden wrote:

> Dear Members of the Swarm Community:
>  
> I'm wondering in the context of economic experiments
> using Swarm whether anyone's considered issues surrounding
> managed care -- particularly concerning whether Swarm
> could be used in modeling treatment outcomes and the ways
> governments pay for those treatments -- please let me know
> what y'all think and also whether anyone is pursuing this
> line of inquiry.

Interesting... Out of curiousity, and not being an economist
myself, are there accepted and/or "traditional" models that
focus on the economics managed care?

Ken.

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