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Designated a Doody's Core Title An ideal reference guide for case managers who work with complex, multimorbid patients, The Integrated Case Management Manual helps readers enhance their ability to work with these patients, learn how to apply new evidence-based assessments, and advocate for improved quality and safe care for all patients. This text encourages case managers to assess patients with both medical and mental health barriers to improvement in order to coordinate appropriate integrated health interventions and treatment planning. Built upon the goals and values of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), this manual guides case managers through the process of developing new and important cross-disciplinary skills. These skills will allow them to alter the health trajectory of some of the neediest patients in the health care system. Key Features: Tools and resources for deploying an Integrated Health Model (physical and mental health treatment) to the medically complex patient Complexity assessment grids: a color-coded tool for tracking patient progress and outcomes throughout the trajectory of the illness Methods for building collaborative partnerships in emerging models of care delivery within multidisciplinary health care teams Strategies for using an integrated case management approach to improve efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and positive outcomes in clinical settings Guidance on connecting multi-disciplinary teams to assist with health issues in the biological, psychological, and social domains to overcome treatment resistance, reduce complications, and reduce cost of care… (more)
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Case management, integrated case management, and complexity assessment grids
Overview of health complexity and the interaction between physical health and mental conditions
The organization of integrated case management environments and work processes
Motivational interviewing and health behavior change in complex patients
Cross-disciplinary training for integrated case managers
Examples of basic information on common physical and mental conditions
Adult integrated case management using intermed-complexity assessment grid methodology
Child-youth integrated case management using pediatric INTERMED-complexity assessment grid methodology
Interpreting complexity assessment grid anchor point scores
Using a case manager-patient dialogue for complexity assessment and care plan development
Managing adult and pediatric cases using integrated case management
Assisting Lucinda : depressed diabetic patient with numerous complications, poor control, and
high service use
Assisting Robert : disabled employee with chronic lung disease, panic attacks, and alcohol abuse
Assisting Paul : thirteen-year-old with congenital heart disease, family anxiety, and school
non-attendance.