A strategy to improve patient care and reduce hospital costs through coordination of care is termed:
a. clinical pathways. c. primary nursing.
b. case management. d. utilization review.
B
Case management coordinates patient care. Clinical pathways were an initiative to reduce LOS,
enhance outcomes, and contain costs; however, these were not achieved through coordination of care.
Primary nursing is a care delivery model where the patient is assigned a primary nurse. Utilization
review is a review of patient charts daily to ensure the patients' acuity warrants continued
hospitalization.
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