The program included implementation of a Care Coordination Counselor (CC Counselor) and several supporting toolsCare Binders, Complex Scheduling, Community Resources for Families Database, and a Care Coordination Network. Patients were referred by a healthcare provider to receive services from the CC ...
Care coordination is widely recognized as a key element of care for patients with chronic and complex medical conditions and their families. In care for children with special health care needs the Family Pediatrician (FP) plays a central role as care coordinator. This study aims to evaluate the...
Patient and Family Partnering: Clinical care teams should work collaboratively with patients, families, and caregivers to empower them to be active partners in all aspects of their care. Their needs, preferences, and limitations should be actively predicted, solicited, and considered in all care enco...
External agencies, as well as patients and their families, can still make referrals by telephone. Reasons for referrals vary; they include multiple diseases, use of multiple health care professionals, medication management issues, Holistic Service Across the Continuum of Care Acting as a partner and...
ORIGINAL RESEARCH Promoting engagement by patients and families to reduce adverse events in acute care settings: a systematic review Zackary Berger,1,2 Tabor E Flickinger,3 Elizabeth Pfoh,4 Kathryn A Martinez,4,5 Sydney M Dy4 ▸ Additional material is published online only. T...
Care coordination: Palliative care providers may work with other healthcare professionals, such as doctors, nurses, and social workers, to ensure that patients receive comprehensive and coordinated care. End-of-life planning: Palliative care providers may assist patients and their families with end-of...
The philosophy of family-centered care is embodied in some care coordination models and absent in others. PNPs who aim to support families of children with special health care needs need to understand the complexity of interacting with multiple care coordination models across health and educational ...
The tool enabled recording of activities, resources-use outcomes, and time. Cost of personnel performing care-coordination activities was derived by extrapolation from the time spent.Care-coordination activity services were used by patients of all complexity levels. Children and youth with special ...
conditions. Among the Medicaid population, the costs are more than double, and for people age 65 and older who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, costs are more than five times higher. Care coordination for people with chronic conditions who participate in what has come to ...
Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the relationship, from the perspectives of clients and of homecare professionals, between coordination and quality of care. For both groups, we hypothesized that better coordination would correlate with higher ratings of quality of care. For the clie...