Case management for long-term and acute medical care.
Case management has developed as an administrative service for controlling costs and improving the quality of health and social service delivery. Long-term care case management combined with service expansion has been examined in some detail with varied results. Less research has focused on case management for users of high-cost medical care. This overview highlights five programs and patient groups where integrated delivery and/or financing of medical and long-term care services are being demonstrated and where new roles for case management may be indicated.
D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics*; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D008484:Medicaid / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D014481:United States