Whose Outcome is it Anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management
Context: The acquired brain injury (ABI) literature highlights various factors that can prevent successful community rehabilitation and hinder good long-term outcomes. Brain injury case management is a service model with the potential to overcome these barriers within rehabilitation and longer-term...
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| author | Jessica Lowry Thomas Wakeham Alyson Norman Jackie Dean Mark Holloway Ben Needham-Holmes Jo Clark-Wilson Philippa Feltham-White |
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Context: The acquired brain injury (ABI) literature highlights various factors that can prevent successful community rehabilitation and hinder good long-term outcomes. Brain injury case management is a service model with the potential to overcome these barriers within rehabilitation and longer-term care and support, but there is minimal research surrounding the effectiveness of case management in ABI.
Objectives: This study aims to gain a better understanding of outcomes in brain injury case management and what facilitates good outcomes when working with clients from the perspective of brain injury case managers.
Methods: A mixed qualitative study using both conventional content analysis and thematic analysis. Twenty-eight brain injury case managers completed an online questionnaire about what constitutes a good outcome in brain injury case management. Of these, five took part in a follow-up interview.
Findings: The analysis identified four themes related to brain injury case management outcomes; 1) A client-centred approach to outcome, 2) the role of the brain injury case manager, 3) monitoring outcome in case management, and 4) issues of funding.
Limitations: Participation in the survey and interviews was somewhat low, largely due to conducting the study during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study only included brain injury case mangers and future studies should examine clients’ and family members’ perspectives.
Implications: This study identified that brain injury case management is a holistic approach to rehabilitation and case coordination that requires further attention to develop evidence-informed practice. Appropriate holistic measures of quality of life and outcome need to be developed to support the evidence base for case management.
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| spelling | doaj.art-77b8d190857e464fbfd2218dc95acd092023-11-12T06:24:47ZengLSE PressJournal of Long-Term Care2516-91222022-04-012022Whose Outcome is it Anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case ManagementJessica Lowry0Thomas Wakeham1Alyson Norman2Jackie Dean3Mark Holloway4Ben Needham-Holmes5Jo Clark-Wilson6Philippa Feltham-White7University of PlymouthUniversity of PlymouthUniversity of PlymouthN-Able ServiceHead First Case ManagementAshton’s LegalHead First Case ManagementBush & Co Context: The acquired brain injury (ABI) literature highlights various factors that can prevent successful community rehabilitation and hinder good long-term outcomes. Brain injury case management is a service model with the potential to overcome these barriers within rehabilitation and longer-term care and support, but there is minimal research surrounding the effectiveness of case management in ABI. Objectives: This study aims to gain a better understanding of outcomes in brain injury case management and what facilitates good outcomes when working with clients from the perspective of brain injury case managers. Methods: A mixed qualitative study using both conventional content analysis and thematic analysis. Twenty-eight brain injury case managers completed an online questionnaire about what constitutes a good outcome in brain injury case management. Of these, five took part in a follow-up interview. Findings: The analysis identified four themes related to brain injury case management outcomes; 1) A client-centred approach to outcome, 2) the role of the brain injury case manager, 3) monitoring outcome in case management, and 4) issues of funding. Limitations: Participation in the survey and interviews was somewhat low, largely due to conducting the study during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study only included brain injury case mangers and future studies should examine clients’ and family members’ perspectives. Implications: This study identified that brain injury case management is a holistic approach to rehabilitation and case coordination that requires further attention to develop evidence-informed practice. Appropriate holistic measures of quality of life and outcome need to be developed to support the evidence base for case management. https://account.journal.ilpnetwork.org/index.php/lse-j-jltc/article/view/107brain injurycase managementrehabilitationcommunity support |
| spellingShingle | Jessica Lowry Thomas Wakeham Alyson Norman Jackie Dean Mark Holloway Ben Needham-Holmes Jo Clark-Wilson Philippa Feltham-White Whose Outcome is it Anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management Journal of Long-Term Care brain injury case management rehabilitation community support |
| title | Whose Outcome is it Anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management |
| title_full | Whose Outcome is it Anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management |
| title_fullStr | Whose Outcome is it Anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Whose Outcome is it Anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management |
| title_short | Whose Outcome is it Anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management |
| title_sort | whose outcome is it anyway outcome and brain injury case management |
| topic | brain injury case management rehabilitation community support |
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