Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance


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The result was   Keep (non-admin closure). Ruslik (talk) 09:33, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance

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Recreation of previously prodded article. Original reason for deletion remains, this is a non-notable organization with the article based exclusively upon the claims of said organization. Delete unless sufficient independent sources are provided to allow for a neutral and verifiable article. --Allen3 talk 11:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm surprised the listing has received this level of scrutiny, given the extensive collection of similar trade associations already in and approved for Wikipedia. Nonetheless, I offer this:

DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance is a well-established and widely recognized trade association for companies and organizations that provide prevention, wellness, disease management and other population health services. DMAA (and under its previous name, "Disease Management Association of America") has been cited extensively in the trade and popular press over the past decade. Below are citations for only a sampling of that coverage, which includes stories exclusively on DMAA activites, stories in which DMAA leaders are quoted and stories referencing the organization's work:

Abruzzo, Mark D. (2000). "Despite What You Hear, State Privacy Statutes No Threat to DM," Managed Care magazine. Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0004/0004.legal.html

Eisenberg, Daniel (2001-08-20). "Take Your Medicine," Time magazine. Retrieved 2008-08-13. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000614,00.html

Fruedenheim, Milt (2002-02-17). "MONEY & MEDICINE; Bedside Visits, on the Telephone," New York Times.

(2002-12-29). "Corporate Corner," St. Paul Pioneer-Press.

(2003-09-03) "Cost control quest leads to disease management," Employee Benefit Adviser.

Pear, Robert (2003-12-03). "Health Industry Bidding to Hire Medicare Chief," New York Times.

Uhlman, Marian (2003-12-29). "Patients' failure to take medicines undermines medical advances," The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Mulder, James T. (2004-02-08) "Health Works! Employers Take the Lead in Encouraging Wellnessa and Helping Workers Manage Chronic Disease," The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.).

Zablocki, Elaine (2004-09-01). "DMAA seeks consensus on DM outcome measures," Managed Healthcare Executive magazine. Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/mhe/Disease+Management/DMAA-seeks-consensus-on-DM-outcome-measures/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/121921?searchString=DMAA

Belli, Anne (2004-12-28). "Programs aim to control health-care costs by managing diabetes, other diseases," Houston Chronicle.

Carroll, John (2004). "DM Standards Off and Crawling," Managed Care magazine. Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0402/0402.dm_standards.html

ElBoghdady, Dina (2005-08-02). "A Nurse's Healing Touch, by Telephone; Medicare Program Uses Call Centers," The Washington Post, page D-4. Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080200310_pf.html

Glabman, Maureen (2005). "12 DM Trends You Should Know About," Managed Care magazine. Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0508/0508.twelvedmtrends.html

(2006-03-27). "Excellent health benefits help attract, retain top employees," San Diego Business Journal.

Glabman, Maureen (2006). "'Take My Word for It': The Enduring Dispute Over Measuring DM's Economic Value," Managed Care magazine, Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0604/0604.dmvalue.html

Butler, Kelley (2007-01-05). "Solving a benefits Sudoku," Employee Benefit News. Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://ebn.benefitnews.com/asset/article/39743/solving-benefits-sudoku.html?pg=

Willett, Hugh G. (2007-04-20). "30 percent of employers offer wellness programs; more planned," Knoxville News-Sentinel.

Benko, Laura B. (2007-01-15). "Payers and Purchasers: Numbers that count - Disease-management industry is taking steps to deliver more reliability, consistency in data on program outcomes," Modern Healthcare magazine.

Bridgeford, Lydell C. (2007-07-24). "Health care reform must recognize chronic care," Employee Benefit News. Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://ebn.benefitnews.com/asset/article/151769/health-care-reform-must-recognize-chronic.html?pg=

Vesely, Rebecca. (2007-09-18). "Reporter's Notebook: Disease-management group looks to larger role," Modern Healthcare magazine.

Llewellynm Anne (2006-12-11). "Disease Management Outcomes Guidelines Report," Dorland Healthcare Information, Retrieved on 2008-08-13.

Krizner, Ken (2008-01-01). "Updated Disease Management Guidelines Impact Investment Perspectives," Managed Healthcare Executive magazine. Retrieved on 2008-08-13. http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/mhe/Disease+Management/Updated-Disease-Management-Guidelines-Impact-Inves/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/482217?searchString=DMAA

Additionally, DMAA is a recognized partner organization of groups with similar interests in chronic disease. See the member listings at these links:

The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease: http://www.fightchronicdisease.org/about/partners.cfm

Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance: http://www.stopobesityalliance.org/members.htm

Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative: http://www.pcpcc.net/content/executive-committee

National Quality Forum http://www.qualityforum.org/pdf/list_of_members.pdf

Please let me know if you need further documentation of our organizational status. Thank you for your consideration. Cgrazian (talk) 18:31, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Article needs to be rewritten slightly to both include these sources and meet WP:NPOV (right now it reads like the first few pages of an annual report), but the subject meets WP:N. Protonk (talk) 03:46, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. 99.207.177.26 (talk) 13:41, 16 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Rewrite Still too POV and "unencyclopedic" for my palate. Annette46 (talk) 08:18, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

To what, specifically, do you object? "Rewrite" isn't much direction for making this article comply. Thanks. Cgrazian (talk) 15:56, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


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