MANAGED CARE AND ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL OUTCOMES

While managed care strategies have been associated with reductions in the utilization of clinical resources, their impact on health care out comes in general, and women's health services, in particular, remains unclear. This review summarizes recent literature regarding the impact of managed care on clinical resource use, outcomes of women's health services, and cost effectiveness of women's health care processes. Imp lications of these findings for women's health providers, women's heal th services and policy, and health services research are discussed. (C ) 1998 Lippincott-Raven Publishers.