Care of Patients With Colorectal Cancer

The Management of Geriatric Hypertension in Health Maintenance Organizations

“…HMOs have been shown to provide equal or better medical care for younger populations, but the quality of care for the elderly in this setting requires scrutiny 1 . Cost containment strategies for capitated health care have historically focused on reducing hospitalization rates, in some instances for both non‐elective as well as elective surgery 2,3 . While the number of ambulatory visits in a younger HMO patient population has been shown to compensatorily increase, the effect of this substitution in an elderly population is unknown.…”