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DMAA consensus guidelines on measuring outcomes draw praise
Former Print Version: Disease Management News, January 10, 2007
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The Disease Management Associa- tion of America (DMAA) last month released widely anticipated consensus guidelines on recommended practices for measuring outcomes in chronic disease management (DM) programs. The guidelines, which still do not meet payers' desires for a measurement method that will allow them to compare programs between different vendors, nonetheless won praise from DM officials, who said the guidelines panel had advanced the debate on outcomes considerably from where it stood even one year ago.
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