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- Title
Integrating Geriatric Case Management into Primary Care Physician Services.
- Authors
Netting, F. Ellen; Williams, Frank G.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the integration of geriatric case management into the practice of primary care physicians. Geriatric case management targets frail clients who are at risk of being high consumers of health care services. Relationship between physicians and social workers are an acute care interaction with discharge planning elements pressures and the growth of managed care limit the time physicians can spend with the frail patients. Physicians agreed on criteria for selecting patients for the geriatric case management based on their judgment of who would most likely benefit from such a program of the older people. Patients are required to be between 65 and 80 years on the date of entry and should be diagnosed with one or more of the diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hip fracture, congestive heart failure, cardiovascular accident or diabetes. When case managers come into closer contact with physicians they realize that their carefully prepared monthly reports are been somewhat ignored.
- Subjects
GERIATRICS; PRIMARY care; PHYSICIANS; MEDICAL care; HOSPITAL case management services; PATIENTS
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 1995, Vol 20, Issue 2, p152
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/20.2.152