Improve delivery of patient care with integrated case management
Case Management Monthly, May 1, 2009
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For the past two years, independent hospital case manager Becky Perez, RN, CCM, CPUR, CPUM, and Roger Kathol, MD, adjunct professor of internal medicine and psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, both of Cartesian Solutions, Inc., in Burnsville, MN, have studied the benefits of an integrated case management program.
According to their study, 5% of patients are complex and use half or more of a facility’s healthcare resources. More than two-thirds of this small group has concurrent physical and mental health/substance use disorders, yet a lack of communication about clinical assessments and treatment can result in an upsurge of issues.
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