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Melinda H Huffman

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PubMed2005

Disease management: a new and exciting opportunity in home healthcare.

Disease management programs are beginning to encompass providers across the healthcare continuum, including home healthcare. The premise behind disease management is that coordinated, evidence-based interventions can be applied to the care of patients with specific high-cost, high-volume chronic conditions, resulting in improved clinical outcomes and lower overall costs. Outcomes data (actual results) are central in this approach to patient care.

Benchmarking↗
PubMed2005

Standards of care and best practices: the link to patient outcomes.

There is a critical link between patient outcomes achieved and the implementation of best practice that is often misunderstood and frequently overlooked. As OBQI ushers in a new outcomes-driven environment of measuring care quality, it is important to understand this link and implement clinical interventions accordingly.

Evidence-Based Medicine↗