Managed care, access to specialists, and outcomes among primary care patients with pain

Social Sciences

• care access 100%
• managed care 83%
• patient care 77%
• pain 70%
• physician 55%
• rating 23%
• clinical guidelines 15%
• cost sharing 14%
• health plan 12%
• questionnaire 10%
• health 9%
• incentive 8%
• manager 7%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Managed Care Programs 84%
• Primary Health Care 58%
• Pain 42%
• Physicians 23%
• Referral and Consultation 16%
• Cost Sharing 11%
• Physicians' Offices 9%
• Primary Care Physicians 7%
• Health 7%
• Information Storage and Retrieval 6%
• Cost-Benefit Analysis 6%
• Motivation 5%
• Patient Care 5%
• Cohort Studies 5%
• Guidelines 4%
• Prospective Studies 4%