Overview
Advanced Case Management: Outcomes and Beyond, is a theoretical, research-oriented, and statistical publication providing comprehensive coverage of advanced case management information. Essential topics presented in this text include outcomes management, disease management, continuous quality improvement (CQI), and complementary medicine practices. Building on Case Management: A Practical Guide to Success in Managed Care, Second Edition, this book explores population-based case management and its components. Part I comprehensively covers disease management concepts and development of a successful disease management program. Part II focuses on the latest trends in outcomes management. Topics covered include how to develop an outcomes management program, the Center for Case Management Accountability (CCMA), benchmarking, and factors affecting case management outcomes. Part III deals with continuous quality improvement (CQI) and proper use of CQI tools. Finally, Part IV, Managing Complementary Health Care--A Vision for the Future, addresses the challenges and the successes of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practices.The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis
Advanced Case Management: Outcomes and Beyond, is a theoretical, research-oriented, and statistical publication providing comprehensive coverage of advanced case management information. Essential topics presented in this text include outcomes management, disease management, continuous quality improvement (CQI), and complementary medicine practices.
Tina Snapp
This book is a very good source of practical information for persons in the leadership roles of case management and utilization management, including the basic building blocks of program development, enhancement and evaluation in the areas of disease management, and quality improvement. This is a theoretical, research, and statistical overview of disease management, outcome management, and process improvement. The author promotes the need for program development and the importance of measuring outcomes. This publication could be used as a reference for staff in the areas of utilization management, case management, and quality assurance in both the insurance and clinical setting. Management personnel would benefit from the structure of program development. Strategies to integrate disease management, continuous quality improvement, outcomes, and complementary and alternative medicine are discussed in detail. Practical frameworks and current industry standards of program development are outlined nicely. The extensive information on CAM might be better addressed in a separate book or condensed article. The information provided in this book is very good and the step-by-step directions would be useful and informative in program development. The information on complementary and alternative medicine is very comprehensive and enhances awareness of the need for integration of these services with Western medicine.
Editorials
Reviewer: Tina M Snapp, BSN(University of Colorado Hospital)
Description: This book is a very good source of practical information for persons in the leadership roles of case management and utilization management, including the basic building blocks of program development, enhancement and evaluation in the areas of disease management, and quality improvement.
Purpose: This is a theoretical, research, and statistical overview of disease management, outcome management, and process improvement. The author promotes the need for program development and the importance of measuring outcomes.
Audience: This publication could be used as a reference for staff in the areas of utilization management, case management, and quality assurance in both the insurance and clinical setting. Management personnel would benefit from the structure of program development.
Features: Strategies to integrate disease management, continuous quality improvement, outcomes, and complementary and alternative medicine are discussed in detail. Practical frameworks and current industry standards of program development are outlined nicely. The extensive information on CAM might be better addressed in a separate book or condensed article.
Assessment: The information provided in this book is very good and the step-by-step directions would be useful and informative in program development. The information on complementary and alternative medicine is very comprehensive and enhances awareness of the need for integration of these services with Western medicine.
Tina Snapp
This book is a very good source of practical information for persons in the leadership roles of case management and utilization management, including the basic building blocks of program development, enhancement and evaluation in the areas of disease management, and quality improvement. This is a theoretical, research, and statistical overview of disease management, outcome management, and process improvement. The author promotes the need for program development and the importance of measuring outcomes. This publication could be used as a reference for staff in the areas of utilization management, case management, and quality assurance in both the insurance and clinical setting. Management personnel would benefit from the structure of program development. Strategies to integrate disease management, continuous quality improvement, outcomes, and complementary and alternative medicine are discussed in detail. Practical frameworks and current industry standards of program development are outlined nicely. The extensive information on CAM might be better addressed in a separate book or condensed article. The information provided in this book is very good and the step-by-step directions would be useful and informative in program development. The information on complementary and alternative medicine is very comprehensive and enhances awareness of the need for integration of these services with Western medicine.3 Stars from Doody