Bundling services saves everybody time.
From a practical viewpoint, the close relationships among utilization review, quality assurance/improvement, infection control, discharge planning, social services, and medical records makes it impossible to separate them. Case management combines these traditionally isolated hospital functions into one department in order to perform many related functions simultaneously. It provides a much more effective and efficient method than can be accomplished by the traditional institutional approach.
Community Methodist Hospital, Henderson, KY.
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D002497:Centralized Hospital Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D007629:Kentucky; D008500:Medical Records Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012948:Social Work Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000458:organization & administration