Identifying Client and Significant Other Characteristics for Determining Type of Continuing Care Services: A Tool for Health Care Practitioners

continuing care needs;discharge health care;Prospective Reimbursement System;assessment;Public Administration

Hunt, Carol A.Flint ;

University of Michigan

关键词: continuing care needs;    discharge health care;    Prospective Reimbursement System;    assessment;    Public Administration;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

There is a need to develop and provide more effective tools for assessing continuing care needs for discharge healthcare. An increasing elderly population, scarce resources and limited reimbursement for health care, necessitate the development of a method to accurately identify those who will require discharge assistance for continuing care. It is becoming more important that clients be afforded the proper and appropriate type of care so as to utilize scarce and costly resources effectively. Among the scarce resources is the health care provider whose scope and extent of responsibilities will change as the agency’s ability to provide services changes. These changes are expected to occur as the Prospective Reimbursement System is initiated in the United States after October 1, 1983. This paper will address these and other issues and provide a literature search and professional practice experience in the development of a tool identifying client and ;;significant other;; characteristics for determining the type of needed continuing care services in the community.