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J P Dees

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PubMed1996

Case management: a management system for quality and cost effective outcomes.

1. Case management is an effective strategy for occupational health nurses to use to reduce corporate health insurance, workers' compensation, and disability expenditures. 2. Case management has evolved from a reactive to a proactive strategy useful in many arenas. While there are differences among group health, workers' compensation, and disability, the basic case management process is the same. 3. Early intervention and comprehensive assessment are the foundation of a successful case management process. 4. Occupational health nurses have extensive clinical, interpersonal, and management skills enabling them to excel as case managers.

Case Management↗
PubMed1995

Program planning: a total quality approach.

1. Deming's concepts for total quality management/continuous quality improvement are the basis for a tool occupational health nurses can apply in health program planning. 2. The program planning model provides a framework for systematically implementing, evaluating, and improving products and services. In the current business environment, this is critical to success and to demonstration of the value of occupational health services to a company. 3. A case study describing implementation of a medical case management program illustrates application of the model in a real life situation.

Humans↗
PubMed1993

How to design a mental health system.

1. In 1989, mental illness costs increased an estimated 57% compared with a 17% increase in overall medical costs. Almost one half of U.S. workers felt stressed in 1991, and one fourth believed they suffered from work related illnesses. 2. The goal of health care cost management is to eliminate unnecessary and ineffective care. 3. Mental health/chemical dependency strategies should be integrated into an organization's other prevention programs. 4. A mental health plan must be designed in keeping with the individual nature of mental illness.

Humans↗
PubMed1990

Health care management. A tool for the future.

As a result of increasing health care costs in the U.S., the skilled, knowledgeable occupational health nurse can implement a plan to reduce these costs with benefits personnel. Using accepted business principles such as the Deming/Shewart cycle, health data can be obtained from the provider, trends can be analyzed, and strategies can be planned for the population. Health and subsequent costs can be managed through the use of the natural history of disease, the three levels of prevention, occupational health nurses' relationships with people, and their access to confidential data. Short-term strategies should include catastrophic and intermediate case management. These systems ensure results in terms of quality and cost.

Accidents, Occupational↗