title: Tracking case management accountability: a systems approach.
abstract: A review of the evaluation of case management programs in the last two decades reveals a lack of consistency in showing outcome effectiveness. In addition, program evaluation models do not reflect the most prevalent theoretical foundation of case management practice, systems theory. It was the purpose of this article to conceptually establish an evaluation model that reflects systems theory in case management practice, to develop evaluation instruments congruent to collecting data in this model, and then to field-test this evaluation model.
authors.affiliation: Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033, USA.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Frankel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heft-LaPorte
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000592:standards*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration; D013597:Systems Analysis; D013598:Systems Theory; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D016526:Workload