Case Management for Persons with HIV/AIDS: Parts 1 & 2 (DM1309)

Course Format

This course is online. All course material is available online and is accessible immediately after purchase from your account homepage. Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.

Course Overview

Outline

• Introduction
  
  
• What is the Question?
  
  
• Case Management Program Features
• Program Features
• Client Characteristics
• Case Manager Characteristics
• Outcome Variables
  
  
• Other Research Design Issues
• Sample Size
• Number of Case Managers
• Clustering within Case Managers
• Organizational Setting
• Local System Variations
• Timing of Outcome Variable Measurement
  
  
• Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs.
• Ethical Considerations
• Treatment Integrity
• Participant drop-outs
• Quasi-experiments
  
  
• Evaluation Studies of HIV Case Management
• AHSP Evaluation Results
• Other Evaluation Studies
  
  
• Conclusions
  
  
• Summary

• Overview

• Introduction

• Potentially Relevant Policy Analsys Tools

• The Importance of a Comparison Group For Evaluating HIV Case Management

• Evaluating the Healthcare Cost Savings Associated with HIV Case Management

• Calculating the costs of producing case management services

• Using caveats for examining health care costs savings

• Using administrative data to assess health care cost savings: overview of administrative data bases, sources, and accessibility

• Quality of administrative data bases

• Adjusting administrative data for severity of illness

• Developing cost proxies

• Other issues related to using administrative data.

• Evaluating Non-Cost Related Case Management Outcomes

• Conclusions and Research Implications

Course Objectives

1. Describe the role of HIV case management


2. Identify the key legislation which institutionalized case management


3. List the ways in which case managers can directly contribute to the positive outcomes of HIV case management


4. Identify issues facing future HIV case management evaluation studies


5. Compare and contrast the use of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA).