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Purpose Of Study: This study explored the roles, training, and qualifications of case managers in level A of Taiwan's long-term care (LTC) system, established within the Ten-Year LTC Plan 2.0, to identify their challenges and provide recommendations for enhancing their performance.
Primary Practice Setting: This study focuses on community integrated service centers in Taiwan, which serve as key hubs for delivering LTC services to Taiwan's aging population.
Methodology And Sample: A narrative review approach was implemented, with an extensive analysis of the literature in terms of the functions and training requirements of and the professional challenges faced by case managers in the LTC sector. This review included articles published between 2016 and 2024 in both English and Chinese.
Results: Case managers play a key role in linking LTC resources and coordinating care for older clients. However, they often face major challenges, including a high caseload, inadequate training opportunities, and a desire to quit, which adversely affect service quality and outcomes.
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Rev Bras Enferm
September 2025
Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
Objectives: to highlight the strategies adopted by hospital managers in reorganizing managerial and care processes at a public university hospital in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: this is a single-case, cross-sectional, descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted through document analysis and interviews with managers between March and June 2022, with an average duration of 30 minutes.
J Palliat Med
September 2025
Section of Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
Communication skills training alone has shown limited impact on improving the frequency and quality of serious illness conversations (SICs). Implementing structured support strategies may enhance both adoption and sustained use in clinical practice. Retrospective review of the impact of Serious Illness Care Program (SICP) training and implementation in outpatient and inpatient settings at a single academic center.
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August 2025
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lucina Analytics, Boca Raton, USA.
Objective Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) poses a public health dilemma. To ensure continuity of care for 12 months postpartum, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 permitted states to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months. This study describes the experiences of a major national insurer in the United States.
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September 2025
School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, PR China.
E-tailers such as Amazon and Tmall can accurately recognize consumer interest in product categories and grasp current consumer trends through product recommendation algorithms and data-driven analysis. In this study, we develop a game-theoretic model to investigate the encroachment and information sharing decisions considering data-driven marketing (DDM). Our outcomes reveal that the manufacturer has the incentive to reduce the wholesale price to incentivize the e-tailer to increase the DDM effort when the spillover effect is high and the marginal cost is low.
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July 2025
Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Background: Al-Zahraa Teaching Hospital, one of the most important hospitals in Iraq, is currently facing extensive organizational problems. One reason for these problems is the lack of attention to the voice of the employees, which can be due to a lack of designing an appropriate model for this phenomenon.
Materials And Methods: Accordingly, the present interpretive, qualitative, and exploratory research mainly aimed at designing a voice pattern for the employees in Al-Zahraa Teaching Hospital in Iraq.