洛杉矶时报（12/30，Brown）报道：“一篇周三发表在《新英格兰医学杂志》上的研究指出，协作看护——同时间聚在一起——能够改善老年抑郁和老年慢性病患者的预后。”
WebMD (12/29, Boyles)报道“小组协作看护能够帮助那些患有糖尿病、心脏病或抑郁症的老年人改善预后，并间接为纳税人节省数十亿资金。”在一项以214名老年患者为对象的研究中，“患者被随机指派到标准看护组和小组协作看护组（TEAMcare），这些患者都身患糖尿病和/或心脏病且控制不佳。”研究者发现“与标准护理相比，那些与指导护士共同工作的患者抑郁程度更弱，糖尿病和心脏病控制的更好。”
HealthDay (12/29, Gardner)报道：“小组协作看护（TEAMcare）每年每人花费1224美元。权威部门正在分析这种形式是否能事实上节省系统资金。”这种“患者平均每人每年花费健康服务系统10000美元”。
Team-based approach to care may help improve outcomes in older patients with depression, chronic disease.
The Los Angeles Times (12/30, Brown) reports, “Research published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that coordinating care to manage depression and chronic illness — together, at the same time — produces better outcomes for patients.”
WebMD (12/29, Boyles) reported that “a team-based approach to managing care could improve outcomes and potentially save taxpayers billions” while helping the older people with diabetes, heart disease, and depression. In a study including 214 older “patients with poorly managed diabetes and/or heart disease, randomly assigned to either standard care or the collaborative care intervention, called TEAMcare,” researchers found that “patients who worked with the nurse coaches had less depression and better control of their diabetes and heart disease risk factors than patients who got standard care.”
HealthDay (12/29, Gardner) reported, “The TEAMcare approach cost $1,224 per patient for the year and the authors are now in the process of analyzing whether this actually saved the system money.” Such “patients, on average, cost health-care systems $10,000 per year.”
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