title: Thinking outside the box: linkages between admissions and case management.
abstract: Admissions gatekeeping can enhance integration of case management efforts focusing on problems prior to care provision. Most effective as a part of the continuum of care currently being called medical management, it helps to eliminate variability and waste in processes. This medical management approach can increase quality of care, reduce cost, and draw outcomes toward a median that payers, patients, and physicians can expect and accept.
authors.affiliation: Mercy Health System, Janesville, WI, USA.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Willis
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017046:Cost Savings; D006801:Humans; D015274:Interdepartmental Relations; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000191:economics; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States