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Gatekeeping The matching of patients’ needs and preferences with the judicious use of medical services. The term is controversial because of its connotation as a menial, bureaucratic function of controlling access to high-cost medical services, a meaning that portrays the physician as the agent of the third-party payers, not the patient
gatekeeping An activity that '…has come to imply the medically limited and bureaucratic function of opening or closing the gate to high-cost medical services. This simplistic view …is controversial, both because of its
menial connotation and because of the implication that the physician is the agent of the third-party payers, not the patient. The more politically correct way to define gatekeeping is '… matching patients' needs and
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Chapters cover managing gatekeeping and governance, supporting families, managing the child protection system, managing to protect children from state care, managing partnerships with families and communities, and managing staff welfare. There is no effort to engage in gun-related prevention through underwriting or pricing, and gun risks do not play a role in personal-lines insurance gatekeeping. Dubbed Identity-Based Privacy-Protected Access Control Filter (IPACF), the new technology blocks threats to the gatekeeping computers, the Authentication Servers (AS), and so allows legitimate users with valid passwords to access private resources. |
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