Assessment, care planning, care plan implementation, client advocacy, monitoring, review, and case closure were reported as the core case management functions in community aged care setting, but many studies did not provide full information about the intensity, breadth and duration of each function.
Evidence from randomized controlled trials showed that case management improves function and appropriate use of medications, increases use of community services and reduces nursing home admission.
As shown in Table 1, case management improves function, improves different aspects of medication management, increases use of community services and reduces nursing home admission; however this was not the case for all studies.
This performance measure highlights medical oversight, case management, and laboratory functions.
As with most systematic reviews, we found that variations in the nature, content and individual components of case management interventions or functions, as well as absence of information on the intervention implementation make it challenging to compare the results among different studies [ 8, 47].
Case management is a new function in France, exercised by case managers who are not physicians.
It has to be stressed that the aforementioned monitoring cannot take place without the close involvement of the frail older people's primary care physician, who should agree with what has to be monitored and when, in order to be able to link these functions of case management adequately with the other functions of case management.
Components In general, the court needs a good case management system that can function as an index to documents.
