title: Case management in the acute care setting. A model for health care reform.
abstract: Case management, as a model for delivering health care, has a long history. Since its inception, the scope and goals of case management have changed and matured. Contemporary approaches to case management represent a dynamic, integrated, and multidisciplinary model of health care delivery. Case management incorporates interdependent and collaborative arrangements between the client and health care provider to ensure cost-effective, quality care. Because of its foundation in cost and quality control, case management is likely to be the delivery model that will play a major role in health care reform over the next decade, both in the acute care setting and in community-based, long-term care programs.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Cesta
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States