Case management: a bottom-line care delivery model. Part 1: The concept.
Nurse executives have been challenged to "reinvent" hospital-based nursing through alternative care delivery models. These models also help eliminate a major barrier to quality: the lack of understanding and ability to control the care delivery process. The authors discuss a collaborative and multidisciplinary case management model which promises to positively affect the institution's total bottom-line patient, staff, and system, including financial, outcomes.
Olivas
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Public Health Services, Tuscon, AZ.
Del Togno-Armanasco
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Erickson
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Harter
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D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care