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Overview
Discover effective strategies for AIDS healthcare!
You’ll definitely want to see what’s documented inside AIDS Capitation if you’re affiliated in any way with current efforts to bolster and improve healthcare policies and procedures for AIDS victims and their families. With this scholarly, up-to-date guidebook, you’ll find that your awareness and knowledge base concerning contemporary AIDS healthcare issues will expand and diversify, giving you a more stable information base from which you can make your own policy changes and civic organization improvements.
If you’re a practitioner in HIV/AIDS care, an academic in HIV/AIDS research, or one of the many public officials currently involved in healthcare reform, you’ll find the guidance and proven strategies you need in AIDS Capitation.
AIDS Capitation gives you a broad range of information including:
- descriptive and evaluative aspects of the model of care
- directions for implementing an innovative model of terminal home care
- modalities of care in end-stage treatment
- measurement issues in evaluative research
- help in measuring outcomes in community-based care
- funding opportunities
Without a doubt, the onset of HIV/AIDS has changed the way we view life. Our schools, government offices, and healthcare venues must change also. AIDS Capitation has everything you need to begin that process of change in your community.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
You’ll definitely want to see what’s documented inside AIDS Capitation if you’re affiliated in any way with current efforts to bolster and improve healthcare policies and procedures for AIDS victims and their families. Through reading this scholarly, up-to-date guidebook, you’ll find your awareness and knowledge base concerning contemporary AIDS healthcare issues expand and diversify, giving you a more stable information base from which you can make your own policy changes and civic organization improvements.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Marvin J. Bittner, MD, MSc, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA(Creighton University Medical Center)Description: The Visiting Nurse Association of Los Angeles carried out a novel approach to home healthcare for HIV-AIDS patients from August, 1995 through June, 1997, involving payment by capitation rather than fee for service. This book consists of seven papers reporting on the approach. The papers were also published as Home Health Care Services Quarterly, Volume 17, Number 1, 1998.
Purpose: The purpose is to describe the Los Angeles approach in detail. This is also an attempt to describe the context of the project and to present a quantitative and qualitative evaluation.
Audience: Nurses and social workers who might copy the Los Angeles approach are the core audience for the book. They are joined by health services researchers, policymakers, and payers.
Features: The Los Angeles approach involved a Transprofessional Model; nurses and social workers were a tightly knit team. The approach focused on end-stage care, but it blended palliative and curative intent. The Health Resources and Services Administration program which funded the Los Angeles approach and 26 other novel projects in HIV-AIDS care are described in a way that facilitates national evaluation of the projects. A table lists the program's 74 evaluation modules. Chapters show how the Los Angeles approach saved money and changed patterns of service utilization. Much of the book is at a high level of abstraction familiar to health services researchers, but one chapter lists specific issues identified by a focus group of providers.
Assessment: The Los Angeles approach operated, for the most part, before the era of protease inhibitors. Thus, the HIV-AIDS of this book is not the same condition that we see at the dawn of the new millennium. However, the principles of the Los Angeles approach are important not just for the "old" HIV-AIDS, but also for the "new" HIV-AIDS and, indeed, for many other conditions.
Marvin J. Bittner
The Visiting Nurse Association of Los Angeles carried out a novel approach to home healthcare for HIV-AIDS patients from August, 1995 through June, 1997, involving payment by capitation rather than fee for service. This book consists of seven papers reporting on the approach. The papers were also published as Home Health Care Services Quarterly, Volume 17, Number 1, 1998. The purpose is to describe the Los Angeles approach in detail. This is also an attempt to describe the context of the project and to present a quantitative and qualitative evaluation. Nurses and social workers who might copy the Los Angeles approach are the core audience for the book. They are joined by health services researchers, policymakers, and payers. The Los Angeles approach involved a Transprofessional Model; nurses and social workers were a tightly knit team. The approach focused on end-stage care, but it blended palliative and curative intent. The Health Resources and Services Administration program which funded the Los Angeles approach and 26 other novel projects in HIV-AIDS care are described in a way that facilitates national evaluation of the projects. A table lists the program's 74 evaluation modules. Chapters show how the Los Angeles approach saved money and changed patterns of service utilization. Much of the book is at a high level of abstraction familiar to health services researchers, but one chapter lists specific issues identified by a focus group of providers. The Los Angeles approach operated, for the most part, before the era of protease inhibitors. Thus, the HIV-AIDS of this book is not the same condition that we see at the dawn of the new millennium. However, the principles of theLos Angeles approach are important not just for the ""old"" HIV-AIDS, but also for the ""new"" HIV-AIDS and, indeed, for many other conditions.Booknews
Explains the Transprofessional Model of end-stage care in HIV-AIDS, which was developed by the Visiting Nurse Foundation of Los Angeles. It is a home-based case management and direct service care model that blends curative and palliative modalities in the care of end-stage AIDS patients in order to provide seamless, effective, and efficient services to those patients. The six reports describe how to set up and manage a program, and are addressed to care givers, administrators, and people working for health care reform. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.4 Stars! from Doody