The Gerontologist, Vol 32, Issue 6 781-788, Copyright © 1992 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Hospital-based case management: results from a demonstration

LH Warrick, FE Netting, JB Christianson and FG Williams
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724.

The Flinn Foundation Hospital-based Coordinated Care case management demonstration was designed to help patients discharged from six participating hospitals be linked to community services by a case manager. One unexpected result was that about half of the clients served were referred from the community, not from the hospital. We examine the characteristics of hospital-based case management clients, the predictors of their continuation in case management, and their health status over 1 year, focusing on the differences between hospital- and community-referred clients.