option?
Coordinated care models
There's a growing movement to better prepare patients for the physi-
cal strain of surgery and boost their overall recovery. The common
idea behind these 3 concepts is that they provide very specific ways to
care for patients that improve recoveries and case outcomes.
Providers are using these care models to successfully bring proce-
dures once thought to be inpatient-only to ambulatory facilities.
• Demonstrated clinical pathways. They use standardized order
sets to optimize the care of a particular group of patients undergoing
specific procedures. The order sets focus on improving outcomes by
coordinating the care of every caregiver who touches the patient.
