TY - JOUR AB - Family Practice Vol. 12, No. 1 Printed in Great Britain © Oxford University Press 1995 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Ljubljana, Slovenia Meeting, October 13-16, 1994 1 Cost and clinical effectiveness evaluation of using a rates well above inflation. They are convinced that C-reactive protein near patient test (NycoCard) in managed care plans will produce demonstrable savings primary care as compared with the current trends of traditional fee- for-service medicine. Several Health Maintenance Richard Hobbs, JE Kenkre, YH Carter and GH Thorpe University of Birmingham, Department of General Organisations (HMOs) are currently operating on an ex- perimental basis but plans have been made by different Practice, The Medical School, Edgbaston, Birmingham provider organisations to embark on a country-wide B15 2TT, UK network at HMOs. SanaCare Inc. is one of them and it runs five SanaCare Practices at present, the author The objective was to evaluate the impact of a novel near being in charge of the centre in Bern, the capital of patient test (NPT) for C-reactive protein (CRP), an im- the country. People insured with SanaCare Inc. pay a flammation indicator, in routine primary care practice premium which is around 20% less than in the conven- and TI - European General Practice Research Workshop JF - Family Practice DO - 10.1093/fampra/12.1.132 DA - 1995-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/european-general-practice-research-workshop-aLSxk8qtdt SP - 132 EP - 142 VL - 12 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -