A recent population health study found that socioeconomic conditions affect leading cause of death on a county level. While national trends show that cancer will soon replace heart disease as the leading cause of death nationwide, researchers found that heart disease is still more likely to be the leading cause of death in lower-income counties.
The new year is upon us, which means a new set of challenges and goals for 2019. We asked case management experts what they think case managers will need to focus on in the new year.
A maternity and child case manager is faced with a complex discharge planning situation involving a new mother who has a history of opioid abuse and lives in shelter.
Increasingly, hospitals and case managers are using social media as a way to educate and inform the community, link up with other professionals to solve problems or ask questions, raise awareness of their organization, and share information.
If you’re involved in utilization review and have found yourself in the uncomfortable position of having to tell a doctor that a patient doesn’t meet criteria for an inpatient stay, you may want to consider different ways to approach these conversations.
Q: I am still not sure whether I need RNs or social workers or both as case managers. Is there any evidence to help me make a decision? I want everyone to be effective, work together well, and be respected as a service.
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that using population health data could help identify patients with a high risk of developing cardiovascular disease who have not been previously identified as high risk due to lack of relevant cholesterol data.
