Jon W Christianson

Restructuring Chronic Illness Management: Best Practices and Innovations in Team-Based Treatment

Caring for Chronically Ill Patients Building on a thoughtful understanding of the organizational, financial, and clinical issues involved in chronic illness, Christianson and his colleagues provide a useful road map to the design and implementation of team-based chronic illness management. A must re...

Managed Care and The Treatment of Chronic Illness

Managed Care and the Treatment of Chronic Illness is a unique presentation of available research in the treatment and outcome of care for the chronically ill patients in managed care settings. Chronic illnesses require frequent and specialized treatment for patients – anathema to the short-term and ...

[(Physician Communication with Patients: Research Findings and Challenges)] [Author: Jon Christianson] published on (August, 2012)

Health Care Policy: A Political Economy Approach

The authors use a political economy perspective to explain why the effects of public medical care policy in America are often at odds with widely accepted notions of the public interest. Medical inflation, national heath insurance, reduction of hospital capacity, and regulation of long term care, ar...

Physician Communication with Patients: Research Findings and Challenges

We all have a good idea of how we want things to go when we visit a physician. We expect to be able to explain why we are there, and we hope the physician will listen and possibly ask questions that help us clarify our thoughts. Most of us hope that the physician will provide some expression of emp...

Reinventing the Patient Experience: Strategies for Hospital Leaders

Are you proud of the patient experience your hospital provides? Are you confident that your hospital is the provider of choice in your community? Does your hospital provide the experience you would want for your family members or friends if they were hospitalized? The emerging age of consumerism in ...

Competitive Pricing for Medicare

This text discusses the problems of America's Medicare programme, analyzing the possible use of competitive bidding as an idea for reform.

Informal Care of the Elderly

Book by Stephens, Susan A., Christianson, Jon B.

Informal Care of the Elderly

Health Care Policy: A Political Economy Approach

Health Care Policy: A Political Economy Approach

Managed Care and the Treatment of Chronic Illness

Managed Care and the Treatment of Chronic Illness

Restructuring Chronic Illness Management: Best Practices and Innovations in Team-Based Treatment

Competitive Pricing for Medicare

Competitive Pricing for Medicare