Nurse-led case management for ambulatory complex patients in general health care: A systematic review

Abstract

There is moderate evidence that case management has a positive effect on patient satisfaction and no effect on ED visits. It was not possible to draw firm conclusions on the other outcomes.

Comprehensive care programs for patients with multiple chronic conditions: A systematic literature review

“…Although our study includes more recent studies than earlier review studies on the same subject [17,[20][21][22][23][24][25], evidence regarding the effectiveness of comprehensive care remains inconsistent. Overall, the effects of comprehensive care were comparable to or more positive than those of usual care.…”

“…standard deviations for mean values). These issues are generally acknowledged by researchers investigating comprehensive care [21][22][23][91][92][93]. Against this backdrop we considered estimating an average effect of comprehensive care by means of meta-analysis of little value.…”

“…Reviews that provide an overview of implemented comprehensive care programs for patients with multiple chronic conditions indicate that evidence for their impact on patients and caregivers is inconsistent [17,[20][21][22][23][24][25]. In most of these reviews criteria for the inclusion of studies were rather narrow.…”

Do Patients With Heart Failure Need a Case Manager?

“…Case management is concerned with optimization of multidisciplinary treatment for complex patients and with the integral needs of individual patient without focusing on only one specific illness or population as in disease management. 15 In case management, the needs of the individual patient are the central issue instead of the disease.…”

Pflegepersonal in psychiatrisch-psychosomatischen Konsiliar-Liaison-Diensten

“…Für patientenbezogene Komplexität gibt es keine einheitliche Definition, in einer bisher unveröffentlichten Arbeit über den Einsatz der Pflege im Case Management werden darunter Patienten verstanden, die in komplexer Weise medizinisch krank sind, also mit akuter oder chronischer Multimorbidität oder Symptomen psychiatrischer Komorbidität und/oder sozialen Problemen, und bei denen mehr als ein professioneller Betreuer in die weitere Gesundheitsversorgung involviert ist [10]. Die Anzahl dieser komplexen Patienten steigt ständig [2], u.a.…”