Evolving Models of Case Management in Home Infusion
Although case management is now well established within many areas of healthcare, its use in home infusion remains sporadic and largely undocumented. Few published examples exist in the literature. At the same time, home care professionals remain under intense pressure to provide high quality and often technically complex care in a cost-effective manner. Case management has been proposed as a method for achieving this goal in home infusion. This, article describes two current models, acute and chronic, of case management. They are discussed in terms of the Case Management Society of America's basic program definition and present how adaptations of the basic definition function to meet the specific patient needs in home infusion.ABSTRACT
Contributor Notes
Ann Williams RN, CRNI is an Infusion Specialist for Deaconess Home Services in Evansville, Indiana and may be contacted at ann_williams@deaconess.com. Ann has been involved in. the infusion therapy specialty since 1989. Ann is also a Director on the Board of Directors of AVA and currently on the AVA Policies and Bylaws Committee. Ann has spoken at AVA conferences and has published articles on areas of Home Infusion.
Ann is also a principal of Ann Williams Consulting at awilliams@themmd.com, offering IV education, PICC insertian classes, legal consulting and other consulting services.
Marilyn Hanchett, RN, PhD is Director of Clinical Affairs at IgG America, Inc. She may be contacted at mhanchett@iggamerica.com. She is a frequent JAVA contributor.