BACKGROUND Case management (CM) is a commonly cited intervention aimed at reducing Emergency Department (ED) utilization by "frequent users," a group of patients that utilize the ED at disproportionately high rates. Studies have investigated the impact of CM on a variety of outcomes in this patient population. OBJECTIVES We sought to examine the evidence of the effectiveness of the CM model i...

INTRODUCTION As states make home- and community-based services (HCBS) more accessible, researchers have become more interested in understanding service use and spending. Because state Medicaid programs differ in the types of services they offer and in how they report these services, analyzing HCBS at the national level is challenging. OBJECTIVE Describe the HCBS taxonomy and present findings ...

Tacit knowledge is the source of knowledge creation, but the organization and retrieval of tacit knowledge using IT has not been discussed much. In this paper, we defined Internal Knowledge Evolution Network (IKEN) to describe the knowledge evolution process from tacit to explicit, and applied the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) integrating with Direct-Case-Linkage technique to support the IKEN mana...

This article draws upon an extensive case management literature in order to integrate a number of key concepts and findings that must be considered by those responsible for the planning, administration, and provision of effective community care to the chronically mentally disabled. A discussion of the reasons for the current popularity of the case management concept within human services is fol...

Employee experience is a valuable asset for any company. A system which can store, retrieve and adapt these experiences to meet the requirements of new scenarios can play an important role in corporate knowledge management. Case-Based Reasoning provides an excellent mechanism for this because it allows the capture and reuse of past experiences, which in this paper involves the generation of exp...

The worst-possible Value-at-Risk for a non-decreasing function of dependent risks is known when or the copula of the portfolio is bounded from below. In this paper we analyze the properties of the dependence structures leading to this solution, in particular their form and the implied functional dependence between the marginals. Furthermore, we criticise the assumption of the worst-possible sce...

BACKGROUND In opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) there are documented treatment differences both between countries and between OMT programmes. Some of these differences have been associated with staff attitudes. The aim of this study was to 1) assess if there were differences in staff attitudes within a national OMT programme, and 2) investigate the associations of staff attitudes with treatmen...

BACKGROUND Case management has been a widely accepted approach to practice in various care settings. This study aimed to explore how community aged care case managers allocated their time to case management functions, how frequently they performed specific case management activities, and what factors influenced the frequency of their activities. METHODS The study involved 154 survey participa...

This paper stresses the contribution of the process of knowledge discovery in databases for the effective creation and sharing of organizational knowledge. The focus on the process of knowledge discovery has been mainly technological. The paper attempts to enrich that perspective by stressing the insights gained by integrating the knowledge discovery process in the social process of knowledge c...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of comorbid depression on glycemic control and on response to a telemedicine case management intervention for elderly, ethnically diverse diabetic patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Medicare beneficiaries in underserved areas were participants (n = 1,665) in the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) pr...