The Integrated Case Management Manual: Assisting Complex Patients Regain Physical and Mental Health

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An ideal reference guide for case managers who work with complex, multimorbid patients, The Integrated Case Management Manual helps readers enhance their ability to work with these patients, learn how to apply new evidence-based assessments, and advocate for improved quality and safe care for all patients. This text encourages case managers to assess patients with both medical and mental health barriers to improvement in order to coordinate appropriate integrated health interventions and treatment planning.

Built upon the goals and values of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), this manual guides case managers through the process of developing new and important cross-disciplinary skills. These skills will allow them to alter the health trajectory of some of the neediest patients in the health care system.

• Tools and resources for deploying an Integrated Health Model (physical and mental health treatment) to the medically complex patient
  

• Complexity assessment grids: a color-coded tool for tracking patient progress and outcomes throughout the trajectory of the illness
  

• Methods for building collaborative partnerships in emerging models of care delivery within multidisciplinary health care teams
  

• Strategies for using an integrated case management approach to improve efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and positive outcomes in clinical settings
  

• Guidance on connecting multi-disciplinary teams to assist with health issues in the biological, psychological, and social domains to overcome treatment resistance, reduce complications, and reduce cost of care
  

Roger G. Kathol, MD,is president of Cartesian Solutions, Inc.

Janice S. Cohen, PhD, CPsych,is a clinical psychologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), as well as clinical professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa.

Rebecca Perez, MSN, RN, CCM, FCM is an experienced Registered Nurse with a master's degree in nursing, is a Certified Case Manager, a member of the Omega Gamma Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Capella University National Society of Leadership and Success, and a member of the National Quality Forum Leadership Consortium. Her most recent works are primary author for Case Management Society of America Integrated Case Management: A manual for Case Managers by Case Managers, Second Edition, CMSA's Case Management Adherence Guide 2020, CMSA's Case Management Adherence and Transition of Care Guide for Clostridiodes difficile, and CMSA's Case Management Adherence and Transitions of Care Guide for Hepatic Encephalopathy. She is the author of numerous professional articles and resources for CMSA, and speaker on case management topics. She is the Senior Manager of Education for CMSA and Executive Director for the Case Management Society Foundation. She was recently awarded a Fellow in Case Management designation.