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* [http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/9/1689.abstract?rss=1 When a family caregiver becomes injured, she learns the difficulties—and costs—of caring for herself and her chronically ill husband at the same time. (9/2014)] | * [http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/9/1689.abstract?rss=1 When a family caregiver becomes injured, she learns the difficulties—and costs—of caring for herself and her chronically ill husband at the same time. (9/2014)] | ||
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| + | * [http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/09/cost-benefit-analysis-case-conservative-management-wins.html When going the costly, aggressive route, could have caused more harm than good, comprising quality of life. (9/20/14)] | ||
Revision as of 14:20, 20 July 2016
To truly understand managing health, we need to hear first hand from patients to relate, emphathize and learn how to improve.
Addressing Other Needs
Complex Patients
- Rebecca Bryson has 10 different medical conditions and depends on 13 health care providers. Her life improved when a program funded a Clinical Care Specialist and the creation of a Shared Care Plan.
- Forty-year-old Jeremie Seals was assigned a care manager and a regular physician that helped reduced his 15 ER visits and 11 hospitals stays to 4 ER visits and 4 hospitals stays the following year.
- Virginia Hunt's story illustrates the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of our healthcare system that addresses conditions and often lacks capability to treat the overall patient.
Healthcare Payment Issues
- A patient suffering from an infected artificial shoulder couldn't afford intravenous antibiotics three times a day for six weeks in home. Medicare spent an unnecessary $30,000 on hospitalization and care rather than reimbursing for home care.
- Medicare would only pay for an 84-year-old man's infusion therapy at a nursing home ($15,000) rather than at his home ($1,200). (2/23/14)
End of Life
- A patient dying of cancer was denied home treatment that would have improved her quality of life over her last few days and saved tens of thousands of dollars.
- A frail, 94-year old women with with advanced Alzheimer’s has hip fracture surgery during her dying days due to poor communications
- A hospital CEO learns that the standard of care isn't always appropriate when her 94 mother sustained a fall
Primary Care Physicians
Caregivers
Quality of Life vs. Aggressive Care
