scholarly journals The impact of team processes on psychiatric case management

2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Team Processes ◽  
Psychiatric Case ◽  
The Impact

The Effect of Diversity and the Mediating Role of Elaboration on Multidisciplinary Greenhouse Gas Assurance Team Effectiveness

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erboon Ekasingh ◽  
Roger Simnett ◽  
Wendy J. Green
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Team Processes ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Audit Firms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Educational Diversity

ABSTRACT Greenhouse gas (GHG) assurance is increasingly used by companies as a means to increase stakeholder confidence in the quality of externally reported carbon emissions. The multidisciplinary nature of these engagements means that assurance is performed primarily by multidisciplinary teams. Prior research suggests the effectiveness of such teams could be affected by team composition and team processes. We employ a retrospective field study to examine the impact of educational diversity and team member elaboration on multidisciplinary GHG assurance team effectiveness. Results show that team processes such as sufficiency of elaboration on different team member perspectives significantly increases the perceived effectiveness of the teams. While educational diversity is not found to directly improve perceived team effectiveness, it is found to have a positive effect through increasing perceived sufficiency of elaboration. These findings have important implications for standard setters and audit firms undertaking GHG assurance engagements.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Impact of Intensive Case Management for Severe Vocational Injuries on Work Incapacity and Costs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolando Leiva ◽  
Lise Rochaix ◽  
Noémie Kiefer ◽  
Jean-Claude K. Dupont
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Intensive Case Management ◽  
Exact Matching ◽  
Case Management Program ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Permanent Work

AbstractPurpose This study investigates the impact of an intensive case management program on sick leave days, permanent work incapacity levels and treatment costs for severe vocational injuries set up by the French National Insurance Fund in five health insurance districts. Methods The method employed relies on a four-step matching procedure combining Coarsened Exact Matching and Propensity Score Matching, based on an original administrative dataset. Average Treatment effects on the Treated were estimated using a parametric model with a large set of covariates. Results After one-year follow-up, workers in the treatment group had higher sickness absence rates, with 22 extra days, and the program led to 2.7 (95% CI 2.3–3.1) times more diagnoses of permanent work incapacity in the treatment group. With an estimated yearly operational cost of 2,722 € per treated worker, the average total extra treatment cost was 4,569 € for treated workers, which corresponds to a cost increase of 29.2% for the insurance fund. Conclusions The higher costs found for the treatment group are mainly due to longer sick leave duration for the moderate severity group, implying higher cash transfers in the form of one-off indemnities. Even though workers in the treated group have more diagnoses of permanent work incapacity, the difference of severity between groups is small. Our results on longer sick leave duration are partly to be explained by interactions between the case managers and the occupational physicians that encouraged patients to stay longer off-work for better recovery, despite the higher costs that this represented for the insurance fund and the well-documented adverse side effects of longer periods off-work.

Models of home care services for persons with dementia: a narrative review

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 1593-1600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee-Fay Low ◽  
Jennifer Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Integrated Care ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Nursing Home Admission ◽  
Community Based ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Community Based Services

ABSTRACTBackground:Worldwide trends of increasing dementia prevalence, have put economic and workforce pressures to shifting care for persons with dementia from residential care to home care.Methods:We reviewed the effects of the four dominant models of home care delivery on outcomes for community-dwelling persons with dementia. These models are: case management, integrated care, consumer directed care, and restorative care. This narrative review describes benefits and possible drawbacks for persons with dementia outcomes and elements that comprise successful programs.Results:Case management for persons with dementia may increase use of community-based services and delay nursing home admission. Integrated care is associated with greater client satisfaction, increased use of community based services, and reduced hospital days however the clinical impacts on persons with dementia and their carers are not known. Consumer directed care increases satisfaction with care and service usage, but had little effect on clinical outcomes. Restorative models of home care have been shown to improve function and quality of life however these trials have excluded persons with dementia, with the exception of a pilot study.Conclusions:There has been a little research into models of home care for people with dementia, and no head-to-head comparison of the different models. Research to inform evidence-based policy and service delivery for people with dementia needs to evaluate both the impact of different models on outcomes, and investigate how to best deliver these models to maximize outcomes.

scholarly journals Assessing the evidence on case management

2002 ◽  
Vol 181 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Ziguras ◽  
G. W. Stuart ◽  
A. C. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Cochrane Collaboration ◽  
Randomised Trials ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Management Effectiveness ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
The Cochrane Collaboration ◽  
The Impact

BackgroundEvidence on the impact of case management is contradictory.AimsTo discuss two different systematic reviews (one conducted by the authors and one conducted through the Cochrane collaboration) that came to contradictory conclusions about the impact of case management in mental health services.MethodWe summarised the findings of the two reviews with respect to case management effectiveness, examined key methodological differences between the two approaches and discuss the impact of these on the validity of the results.ResultsThe differences in conclusions between the two reviews result from the differences in inclusion criteria, namely non-randomised trials, data from unpublished scales and data from variables with skewed distributions. The theoretical and empirical effects of these are discussed.ConclusionsSystematic reviewers may face a trade-off between the application of strict criteria for the inclusion of studies and the amount of data available for analysis and hence statistical power. The available research suggests that case management is generally effective.

scholarly journals The Impact of Enhanced Teammate Evaluations on Important Individual and Team Outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Erik R. Eddy ◽  
Caroline P. D’Abate ◽  
Melinda Costello
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Critical Area ◽  
Interpersonal Processes ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Team Processes ◽  
Team Outcomes ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Enhanced Learning

There is evidence that teamwork is proliferating in organizations and, in many ways, is replacing working individually. Academia has responded by integrating teamwork into curricula, but the use of teams as a pedagogical approach is also driven by evidence that it can lead to enhanced learning and more engaged learners. Researchers have examined factors in team effectiveness, activities and assignments for student teams and ways to optimize team formation. The current study was designed to focus on an under-explored and critical area of managing teamwork in classroom pedagogy: peer feedback. Students were placed into two conditions - a “conventional” approach using general, non-benchmarked feedback and an “enhanced” behaviorally-specific, benchmarked approach. Findings suggest enhanced teammate evaluations held substantial benefits over conventional evaluations resulting in better student perceptions of team processes (i.e., action, transition, and interpersonal processes) as well as more enthusiasm for teamwork. These findings have important implications for classroom pedagogy and student career development.

The Impact of Psychosocial Factors on Health and Retention Outcomes for People Living With HIV: Implications for Rehabilitation Counselors and Educators

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-107
Author(s):  
Yung-Chen Jen Chiu ◽  
K. B. Boomer ◽  
Liza M. Conyers
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Retention In Care ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
The Impact

Despite medical advancements that have significantly improved the health outcomes of people living with HIV (PLWH), many do not achieve optimal health outcomes due to psychosocial barriers. This 5-year retrospective longitudinal study draws upon the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework to conceptualize the relationships between personal and environmental factors and health and retention outcomes among a sample of 704 PLWH in Pennsylvania. A generalized estimated equations (GEE) model was used to model retention in care outcomes (at least one medical visit every 6 months) and a general linear mixed (GLM) model was used to analyze immune system health outcomes (CD4%). This exploratory study reveals that gender, age, race, use of antiretroviral (ARV) medications, use of case management service, mental health diagnosis, and alcohol use were significantly associated with retention in care, whereas race, ethnicity, gender, mental health treatment, use of ARV medications, use of case management services, and retention in care status were significantly associated with the immune system health outcome of CD4%. The results suggest a need for rehabilitation interventions to address key psychosocial issues, as rehabilitation counselors have a unique skill set to address the medical case management needs of individuals with HIV. Implications for rehabilitation counselors and educators are discussed.

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