This study evaluates a demonstration that used high intensity care management to improve integration between the acute and long-term care service systems. The demonstration intervention included the use of clinical nurse care manager, supervised by a geriatrician, to supplement an existing in-home care management system. Chronically disabled home care clients age 60 and over were randomly assigned (N = 308) to receive enhanced clinical services plus traditional care management, or to the control group, to receive the normal care management services provided. Treatment group members were expected to experience lower use of hospitals and nursing homes and lower overall health and long-term care costs. Research subjects were followed for up to 18 months using Medicare records and mortality data. A subsample (N = 150) also received in-person interviews to cover a range of health and social outcomes anticipated as a result of the intervention. Although there was some variation in health use and cost across treatment and control groups over the 18 month time period, the overall conclusion is that there were no differences between groups on any of the outcome variables examined. Efforts to integrate the acute and long-term care systems have proven to be difficult. This intervention, which attempted to create integration through high intensity care managers, but without financial or regulatory incentives, was simply unable to create enough change in the care system to produce significant change for the clients served.
Introducción: la pandemia de COVID-19 impone a los profesionales de la salud: altas exigencias y modificaciones en el modo de vincularse con pacientes, pares y familiares. Estos cambios implican consecuencias emocionales tales como el incremento del nivel de estrés y síntomas de ansiedad y de depresión. Objetivo: describir un proyecto interdisciplinario creado bajo el modelo de la Medicina Narrativa dirigido a habilitar el relato de la experiencia de profesionales de la salud pertenecientes a un hospital general privado de alta complejidad de la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Metodología: se creó una lista de correo y se convocó a profesionales del hospital a realizar una producción escrita, oral o gráfica que represente su experiencia durante la pandemia. Luego, el material recibido se envió a la misma lista de distribución con frecuencia semanal. En cada correo se renovó la invitación a narrar lo vivido o comentar los relatos de otros. Resultados: en el transcurso de siete semanas se recibieron diez producciones individuales: ocho textos, un audio y un gráfico. Los principales temas tratados pudieron agruparse en tres ejes: sala COVID, comunidad y telemedicina. Los autores fueron profesionales de Medicina, Enfermería, Psicología y de Puericultura. Conclusión: desarrollamos un proyecto bajo el modelo de la Medicina Narrativa que permitió a profesionales narrar su experiencia durante la pandemia de COVID-19, habilitando la posibilidad de poner en palabras lo vivido, reflexionar sobre modelos de actuación y elaborar el desgaste emocional generado por el contacto permanente con el dolor y el sufrimiento.
From patient to future doctor: autobiographical scenes, narratives and humanistic development in medicine. This article intends to reread, analyze and resignify a series of narrations produced by medical students in the light of the contributions of Narrative Medicine. Such accounts were written during the “Doctors and Narratives” workshop which was held in the Culture and Society I class, in the first year of the Premedical Stage of Medical School at IUC (CEMIC University Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina) in May 2010. The purpose of this “rereading” is to suggest some hypotheses that will guide the design of new mechanisms for training and action research, in order to keep building knowledge regarding the contributions that working with narratives can offer in the training of health professionals (in the initial stages and thereafter). By “narratives” we mean the use of stories from different sources (literature, oral tradition, autobiographical production) whether written or oral, to reflect upon the effect the use of language has in the practice of medicine and the role those accounts play in constructing personal and professional identity.RESUMENEste artículo se propone releer, analizar y re-significar una serie de relatos producidos por alumnos de la Carrera de medicina, a la luz de los aportes de la Medicina Narrativa. Dichos relatos fueron escritos en el marco del taller “Médicos y Narrativas“ que se desarrolló en la asignatura Cultura y Sociedad I, del primer año del Ciclo Premédico de la Carrera de Medicina del IUC (Instituto Universitario CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina) en mayo de 2010. El objeto de esta relectura es sugerir algunas hipótesis que orienten el diseño de nuevos dispositivos de formación e investigación–acción, para seguir construyendo conocimiento acerca del aporte que el trabajo con Narrativas hacen a la formación de profesionales de la Salud (tanto inicial como continua). Cuando nos referimos a “Narrativas”, estamos pensando en el uso de relatos provenientes de diferentes fuentes (literatura, tradición oral, producción autobiográfica) en forma de Narración oral y /o escrita, para producir reflexiones acerca del efecto que el uso del lenguaje tiene en la práctica médica y la función que cumplen los relatos en la construcción de la identidad personal y profesional.
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