Episode of Care

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91 relevant articles (1 outcomes, 14 trials/studies) found for this Therapy

Description: An interval of care by a health care facility or provider for a specific medical problem or condition. It may be continuous or it may consist of a series of intervals marked by one or more brief separations from care, and can also identify the sequence of care (e.g., emergency, inpatient, outpatient), thus serving as one measure of health care provided.

Also Known As:

Episodes of Care; Care Episode; Care Episodes; Episode, Patient Care; Episodes, Patient Care; Patient Care Episode; Patient Care Episodes

Relationship Network

Therapy Context: Research Results

Therapeutics: 5221

Patient Care

Episode of Care: 91

Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services

Health Services

Patient Care

Episode of Care: 91

Experts

1.	Sáiz Martínez, Marta: 1 article (07/2006)
2.	Hernández Martín, Angela: 1 article (07/2006)
3.	Núñez Reiz, Antonio: 1 article (07/2006)
4.	Rovirosa i Juncosa, Juan: 1 article (07/2006)
5.	Pransky, Glenn: 1 article (01/2004)
6.	Verma, Santosh: 1 article (01/2004)
7.	Webster, Barbara: 1 article (01/2004)
8.	Wasiak, Radoslaw: 1 article (01/2004)
9.	DeLuca, Stephanie C: 1 article (11/2003)
10.	Ramey, Sharon L: 1 article (11/2003)

Related Diseases

1.	Kyphosis 12/01/2006 - "At the end of the episode of care, the patient's upright posture had improved to 10 degrees kyphosis with head in neutral extension in both standing and walking." Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	Substance-Related Disorders (Drug Abuse) 01/01/2006 - "The purpose of this study was to use administrative records of admissions to substance abuse treatment to construct episodes of care for publicly funded adolescent clients in Washington State, and then to analyze two important outcomes after an index episode: readmissions to treatment and criminal convictions (including felony convictions and any conviction)" 01/01/2000 - "The purpose of this study was to use administrative records of admissions to substance abuse treatment to construct episodes of care for publicly funded clients in Washington State, and then to analyze readmissions to treatment after an index episode" 02/01/1994 - "This study describes mortality rates and predictors of mortality among late-middle-aged and older (55+) substance abuse inpatients (n = 21,139) in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers in the 4 years after an index episode of care" 09/01/2002 - "Dual diagnosis patients with highly severe symptoms would likely benefit from a longer episode of care that includes substance abuse and psychiatric outpatient treatment." 01/01/1995 - "RESULTS: Patients who had longer episodes of care in residential facilities were more likely to obtain outpatient mental health aftercare and were less likely to be readmitted for additional substance abuse or psychiatric care in six-month, one-year, and four-year follow-up intervals" Order ALL the reference details at left...
3.	Wounds and Injuries (Trauma) 07/01/2008 - "This study evaluates the performance of different case selection criteria to account for multiple episodes of care when estimating the hospitalisation rate due to road trauma amongst children" 01/01/1995 - "Specifically, the prototype being demonstrated was designed through observation of actual civilian trauma care episodes, military trauma care exercises onboard a hospital ship, interviews with civilian and military trauma care providers, repeated evaluation of evolving prototypes by potential users, and study of the literature on trauma care and human factors engineering" 11/01/1998 - "Data were collected in Motala municipality (population = 41,000), Ostergötland county, Sweden, during one year before and one year after program intervention, from two sources: registration of trivial (AIS 1) and non-trivial (AIS 2-6) unintentional injuries from all acute care episodes in the area and recollection of hospital bed days from discharge registers" 11/01/1993 - "There were an estimated 5.9 million episodes of care for orofacial trauma in the U.S" Order ALL the reference details at left...
4.	Low Back Pain (Lumbago) 02/01/1994 - "Although individuals with low back pain frequently receive treatment from a physical therapist, few published studies exist that describe who sees a physical therapist for their low back pain nor is much known about physical therapy episodes of care for this condition" 01/01/2004 - "Risk factors for recurrent episodes of care and work disability: case of low back pain." 05/01/2003 - "Application of the HOAC II: an episode of care for a patient with low back pain." 11/01/2002 - "An episode of care for low back pain was defined as a consultation or a series of consultations for low back pain, preceded and followed by at least 3 months without consultation for low back pain" 05/01/1998 - "There was a greater than 2-fold difference in the median number of visits related to low back pain per episode of care across sites" Order ALL the reference details at left...
5.	Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) 05/01/1999 - "Three findings emerged from this study: (1) resource use for a well-defined episode of care varies much more than one would expect in this highly competitive managed care environment; (2) the culture of the group practice appears to be more important than organizational structure in determining resource use for the treatment of hypertension; and (3) together the culture and structural variables only explain 8 percent of the variance in resource use" 05/01/1999 - "This study analyzes the effects of the structure and culture of medical group practices on the amount of resources used to manage uncomplicated hypertension episodes of care for enrollees in a Minneapolis/St. Paul HMO during 1990" 01/01/2002 - "A random sample of medical charts of patients with hypertension was selected, to extract data on utilization of health services and unitary costs per care episode" 09/01/1989 - "We measured 1,538 episodes of care relating to the office management of hypertension by chart review, prior to, and at six and 12 months following education" 03/01/1977 - "To test the feasibility of defining episodes of care as a cost-effectiveness measure, a pilot study was carried out in conjunction with an ongoing quality assessment program which involved abstracting prospective data from charts of patients treated for hypertension in the Primary Care Clinic of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital" Order ALL the reference details at left...

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