Journal article
Cost-Effective Management of High-Risk Patients: A Case-Map Approach
The Annals of thoracic surgery, v 64(6), pp S76-S79
01 Dec 1997
PMID: 9431799
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Abstract
Background. The case-management approach to patient care used by most cardiac surgical practices frequently highlights patients designated as high-risk. Increased risk might be because of advanced age, the need for complex reoperations, high risk of bleeding, and renal failure, all of which may be superimposed on poor ventricular performance.
Methods. A small consensus panel of cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, perfusionists, cardiac-care nurse managers, and coagulation experts met to assess the potential for development of case-management pathways targeted towards high-risk coronary artery bypass graft patients. The process comprised review of the literature to identify risk factors and strategies most cost-effective in reducing risk.
Results. A series of management strategies driven by data from the literature—or by consensus when such information was not available—were developed to cost-effectively manage the high-risk patient. The process was then converted to a multidimensional computer program. This personal computer-driven program served as a framework upon which any institution could impose its own practice style and modify recommendations. The program was designed to be interactive and to allow easy transition from patient-management strategies to support data. A facilitator generally coordinates the interaction between the local patient-care group and the computer information base to evolve a case-management map.
Conclusions. By using stored information based on current literature and easily updated, the system is both educational and product oriented, and provides a case-map approach to the cost-effective management of patients during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of hospital care.
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- Title
- Cost-Effective Management of High-Risk Patients: A Case-Map Approach
- Creators
- Andrew S Wechsler - Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
- Publication Details
- The Annals of thoracic surgery, v 64(6), pp S76-S79
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000071587300007
- Other Identifier
- 991020705473604721
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- Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
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