title: Job responsibilities should determine case managers' caseload.
abstract: The number of patients a case manager can handle effectively and efficiently largely depends on the manager's overall responsibilities and the hospital's case management model. Although the hospital industry recognizes several different models, they are defined differently, and experts say it is useless to try to apply a textbook-appropriate ratio without first having details of individual jobs.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D017146:Models, Organizational; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review