title: In-home behavioral health case management: an integrated model for high-risk populations.
abstract: The escalating health care costs attributed to high-risk populations have fueled a need for a proactive approach to deal with people affected by complex mental health issues that often coexist with chronic medical conditions. Through an in-home behavioral health case management (CM) program, patients with mental illnesses (some with coexisting medical conditions) receive integrated medical and mental health services through a disease-management approach that has proven effective in treating high-risk patients.
authors.affiliation: Acacia Clinic, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: Gerald A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Theis
authors.forename: Deirdre
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kozlowski
authors.forename: Jenna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Behrens
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015897:Comorbidity; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D019468:Disease Management; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014922:Wisconsin