The patients with chronic diseases including lifestyle related diseases and malignant tumors
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: -The insured of Kure-city and Osaki National Health Insurance, and the Late Elderly Health Insurance System living in Kure-city and Osaki.Age =>20 years old. A patients fall under any of the following criteria 1 to 7. 1.A patient whose medical expenses are more than 1 million yen per month per month 2.A patient had two or more hospital admissions due to disease exacerbation last year 3.A patient had access to an intensive care unit from emergency outpatient last year 4.A patients' general condition is stable, but he can not decide on the recuperation 5.A patient has consulted frequently more than 10 days a month for the past 3 months or more 6.A patient takes more than 10 types of internal medicine
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: -Age<20 -Acute illness -Accident injuries
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1.Efficacy of model -Medical Economic Indicators: Medical costs and long-term care costs, and how the service were used -Physical indicators: blood pressure, respiration rate, and ADL -Clinical indicators: total protein, albumin, potassium, sodium, and CRP -Psychological indicators: QOL and PHQ9 scores 2.Contents of support -Details of advanced case management 3.Feasibility -Accurately extracting patiants that we should target -Appropriateness of positioning of advanced case managers -Change of the region | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University Department of Nursing