Palliative and curative care are not mutually exclusive approaches to patients at the end of life. Rather, the two need to be integrated to form a plan that focuses on the overall quality of life. Providing such care ...
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Palliative and curative care are not mutually exclusive approaches to patients at the end of life. Rather, the two need to be integrated to form a plan that focuses on the overall quality of life. Providing such care requires physicians with specific skills and training.
Knowing which tests and treatment each patient needs is only one aspect of successful management of type 2 diabetes. It is equally important: to know which treatment the patient is willing to undertake, and to have in...
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Knowing which tests and treatment each patient needs is only one aspect of successful management of type 2 diabetes. It is equally important: to know which treatment the patient is willing to undertake, and to have in place a system for remembering when to test and for tracking what already has been done.
Computerized data management technology for clinical decision making is a key to optimizing the performance of programs serving the most severely disabled and treatment-resistant patients.
Computerized data management technology for clinical decision making is a key to optimizing the performance of programs serving the most severely disabled and treatment-resistant patients.
This study investigates how social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists document the treatment they provide clients to managed behavioral health care organizations. The rosters of the Register of Clinical Social ...
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This study investigates how social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists document the treatment they provide clients to managed behavioral health care organizations. The rosters of the Register of Clinical Social Workers, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychiatric Association yielded a sample of 168 private practicing social workers, 158 psychologists, and 258 psychiatrists from across the nation. Results indicated that practitioners differed based on age, amount of time spent in private practice, racial self-identification percentage of time with clients diminished due to communicating with managed behavioral health care organizations, and documentation of clients' prognoses, Some practitioners believe it is necessary to report treatment needs in ways to assure certification rather than in ways that accurately depict clients' clinical profiles. The ramifications for clinicians' evaluation of their own practices, reimbursement for their services, and meeting clients' needs while working under managed behavioral health care guidelines are discussed.
This paper assumes that the effectiveness and efficiency of an integrated community system of care for HIV infected people may depend to a large extent on common perceptions of the objectives of such a system among th...
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This paper assumes that the effectiveness and efficiency of an integrated community system of care for HIV infected people may depend to a large extent on common perceptions of the objectives of such a system among three sets of actors--the patient, the professional care manager, and the continual care giver. It discusses a decision analytic inquiry into that concurrence on objectives. The conclusion is that within the community studied there is strong evidence of a significant lack of such common purpose.
Although consumers have made significant gains in having their voices heard in several areas within mental health, they have made less progress in being able to collaborate with their own treaters in setting treatment...
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Although consumers have made significant gains in having their voices heard in several areas within mental health, they have made less progress in being able to collaborate with their own treaters in setting treatment goals. On the basis of several years of groundwork by staff at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), the Patient Care Committee conducted a needs assessment of providers and consumers to assess bath groups' current involvement, interest in, and attitudes toward collaborative treatment planning. The results indicate that providers tend to place much of the responsibility for the difficulties in implementing collaborative treatment planning on consumers. Also, providers tend to underestimate consumers' interest in participating in this process. Implications of these findings for the development of an agency-wide training to enhance the collaborative nature of treatment planning are discussed.
This article discusses issues relating to the design and internal administration of a case management agency for community based home care for the elderly. Included in the article are issues relating to screening proc...
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The notion of using case managers to coordinate care and services to the elderly has become increasingly popular. Case management appears to be seen by some as the route to reform and rationalization of the financing ...
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