Overview
- Comprehensive review of health system changes that have led to the development of patient assistance and support through case management
- Discusses how to more effectively and efficiently manage patients with health complexity in meeting the challenges faced by treating practitioners and their health systems
- Provides a lexicon and clinical tools, including the integrated case management-complexity-assessment grid (ICM-CAG), that lead to improved health while reducing healthcare service use
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This reference provides a lexicon and a roadmap for physicians in working with case managers as our health system explores innovative ways to improve outcomes and reduce health costs for patients with health complexity. An invaluable, gold-standard title, it adds to the literature by capturing the authors' personal experiences as clinicians, researchers, teachers, and consultants. The Physician's Guide: Understanding and Working With Integrated Case Managers summarizes how physicians and other healthcare leadership can successfully collaborate with case managers indelivering a full package of outcome changing and cost reducing assistance to patients with chronic, treatment resistant, and multimorbid conditions.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Overview of Case Management, Health Complexity, and the Integrated Case Management Approach
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Guidelines for Physicians Working to Maximize Patient Outcomes in Collaboration with Integrated Case Managers
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota
President, Cartesian Solutions, Inc.™
Chief Medical Officer/Physician Board Advisor, Case Management Society of America
Burnsville, MN, USA
Katherine Hobbs Knutson, MD, MPH
Medical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, USA
Peter J. Dehnel, MD
Medical Director for Case Management and Utilization Management
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Edina, MN, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physician's Guide
Book Subtitle: Understanding and Working With Integrated Case Managers
Authors: Roger G. Kathol, Katherine Hobbs Knutson, Peter J. Dehnel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28959-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28957-1Published: 09 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28959-5Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 343
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Internal Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, Psychiatry, Public Health