Implementing Outcome-Based Home Care: A Workbook of OBQI, Care Pathways and Disease Management

Contains a thorough, quick reference for OBQI/OBQM

Guides the user through the development of best practice care pathways for use in OBQI

Provides the foundation for implementation of home care disease management

Covers foundational patient outcomes information that is not covered by Medicare’s OBQI.

Helps agencies establish their focus for outcome-based patient care by guiding the user through applications that identify the agency’s primary patient population(s) and that ascertain staff competency and expertise relative to these patient groups.

Explains how to use agency-desired outcomes to formulate the staff competency assessment and performance appraisal for the purpose of enhancing accountability with implementation of agency standards of care and accurate measurement of outcomes.

Discusses how interventions selected to achieve specific outcomes warrant a financial analysis of the cost versus benefit to patients and the agency. This chapter provides a framework and rationale for the use and application of financial outcomes data. 

Demonstrates how to analyze outcomes from a marketing perspective, how to base marketing strategies on outcomes achieved, how to affect physician practice patterns, and how to prepare outcome presentations for customers.

CD-ROM with outcomes forms that can be easily customized for use by your agency.

Perforated, three-hole punched pages for easy access and portability.

Chapter 1: The Foundation of Outcome-Based Homecare: Outcomes Measurement and Standards of Care

     Section A. Outcomes and Outcome Measurement
     Section B. Variance & Variance management 
     Section C. Patient Compliance: A Critical Role in Outcomes Management
     Section D. Standards of Care/Best Practices
     Section E. Critical Link between Outcomes Achieved and Implementation of Standards of Care

Chapter 2: Building an Outcome-Based Approach to Homecare

     Section A. Getting Started
     Section B. OBQI/OBQM
     Section C. Developing Effective, Best Practice Care Pathways
     Section D. Disease Management (DM) and Outcome-Based Practice in Homecare

Chapter 3: Integrating Standards of Care and Outcomes into Staff Competency & Performance

     Section A. Staff Competency: A Link to Outcomes Achieved
     Section B. Performance Appraisal: Accountability for Implementing Outcome-Based Care

Chapter 4: Financial Outcomes Data: Use and Application

Chapter 5: Using Healthcare Outcomes to Enhance Marketing and Business Development

Appendix A: Internet Resource Listing: Best Practices

Appendix B: Action Plan: Performance Improvement for OBQI/OBQM

Appendix C: Action Plan: Development & Implementation of Care Pathways

Appendix D: Action Plan: Homecare Disease Management Implementation

Appendix E: Forms

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