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Medical care can be managed so as to ensure quality, distribute resources rationally, and control costs. The specific market-based variant of managed care that has flourished in the United States has been designed primarily to control costs. Outpatient psychiatric care offers an excellent arena in which to examine how managing care to control costs affects both the quality of care and the distribution of resources. Outpatient psychiatric care is more heavily managed than general health care, and the resources available for it have been quite limited. In this issue of the Journal, Kessler et al.¹ describe the way in which . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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