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Connecting Care for Patients: Interdisciplinary Care Transitions and Collaboration addresses practical strategies for creating connected, seamless, and transparent health care for patients in settings outside of the hospital. It presents antidotes to healthcare fragmentation caused by inefficient care, patient safety problems, patient dissatisfaction, and higher costs. The text focuses on clinical case management, interdisciplinary referrals and conferencing, cross functional team meetings, tracking patients in value based purchasing programs, inpatient liaison visits, structured collaboration with physician groups, and referral sources and development of clinical community networking groups. A unique resource, it blends conceptual information with practical tools and strategies for connecting care for patients by describing research and evidence-based techniques and translating them into actionable tools. Also included are chapter objectives, review questions, explanations of key terms, case studies, self-assessments, scripts, trigger questions, and detailed descriptions of each tool and technique.

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9781284129427

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Barbara Katz, RN, MSN has over 40 years of experience in the health care industry as a nurse, executive, trainer and consultant. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Nursing, She has a Certificate in Training and Development from Fairfield University and a Coaching Certification from the American Talent Development Association. Barbara was the 2013 winner of the Connecticut Association for HealthCare at Home’s Judith A. Hriceniak Award for Excellence in Nursing Leadership.Barbara has been a hospital nurse, an APRN, a training manager, a director of quality improvement and a clinical manager for a group of medical practices. She has also been a marketing director for a home health care agency and has managed operations for a private duty home care agency.She has designed and taught seminars on process improvement, data analysis, management, motivational interviewing and team-building. Barbara frequently speaks on topics including the practical use of data to improve outcomes, motivational interviewing, health literacy, collaboration and care transitions and adapting to the new world of health care.

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