{"title":"Case management: a heritage more than a century old.","authors":"H A Tahan","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The roots of case management are more than a century deep. This innovative approach to managing, coordinating, expediting, and facilitating patient care is neither new nor exclusively limited to nursing practice. A review of the historic literature reveals that the evolution of case management is a byproduct of creative healthcare efforts associated with different disciplines, including nursing, medicine, mental health, public health, and social work. This article presents a historical review of significant milestones in the evolution of the field of case management and its related tools (i.e., clinical pathways).</p>","PeriodicalId":79521,"journal":{"name":"Nursing case management : managing the process of patient care","volume":"3 2","pages":"55-60; quiz 61-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nursing case management : managing the process of patient care","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The roots of case management are more than a century deep. This innovative approach to managing, coordinating, expediting, and facilitating patient care is neither new nor exclusively limited to nursing practice. A review of the historic literature reveals that the evolution of case management is a byproduct of creative healthcare efforts associated with different disciplines, including nursing, medicine, mental health, public health, and social work. This article presents a historical review of significant milestones in the evolution of the field of case management and its related tools (i.e., clinical pathways).