Patients with complex illness face a bewildering array of specialty and primary care providers, as well as home and long-term care services and supports. Care arrangements may be especially confusing ...

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ([email protected]), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Rachel Willard-Grace, University of California San Francisco. Caring for people with ...

Rib fractures are common after blunt trauma to the chest, accounting for 10% of hospital trauma admissions. Complications can be life threatening and can result from the initial impact, as well as ...

Graduates of the MSN Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Specialty are educated to care for adolescents and young adults to older adults and their primary care needs including ...

This study examines UnitedHealthcare’s Institutional Special Needs Plans and their association with hospital and skilled nursing facility use. Objectives: To evaluate the patterns of clinical service ...

As a health care leader, their role isn’t to diagnose illnesses; it's to diagnose operational inefficiencies. The business of ...

Compared with usual care, a dementia care management program improved various cost of care and utilization metrics in a Medicare managed care population at 12 months. Objectives: To examine a 12-month ...