It is expected that metrics will be available so that the contributions of case management are quantified, as outlined by Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior vice president, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, in her April 2011 Case Management Insider article "You're only as good as yesterday's discharges Strategies to demonstrate case management's value."
The devil is in the details when it comes to convening a successful interdisciplinary meeting.
To maintain stability and effectiveness in meetings, the following steps should be considered.
It's a new era for hospitals and for case managers as a multitude of auditors from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and commercial payers scrutinize patient records looking for errors.
Much attention has been given to injuries of the cervical spine, but injuries to the thoracolumbar region are actually more common. Because of the anatomy involved, these injuries are often accompanied by multiple serious injuries to other areas of the body and may be overlooked during resuscitation and stabilization.
