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Text or Not to Text? A Narrative Review of Texting as a Case Management Intervention #MMPMID34397654
Sobers-Butler K
Prof Case Manag 2021[Sep]; 26 (5): 250-254 PMID34397654show ga
PURPOSE: To review current literature on texting as a sustainable intervention of case management in the outpatient setting. FINDINGS: Texting, as a case management intervention, provides the medically complex client with a pathway to achieve care plan goals. Texting increases adherence, communication, and self-management. It can increase client enrollment in disease management programs, while providing support, flexibility, convenience, cost savings, and increased participation. IMPLICATIONS FOR CASE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE: In current practice, such as management of the coronavirus (COVID-19), other pandemics, or natural/environmental disasters, texting is a solution-focused intervention that can deliver and retrieve real-time information to a medically complex population. It can link patients to resources and increase outreach, efficiency, quality, and coordination of care. Texting can promote adherence to appointments, increase medication compliance and disease management interventions, and provide motivational change messages. However, there are legal and regulatory concerns that carry potential consequences and implications that should be approached judiciously (Mellette, 2015). Texting is not one size fits all; it can cause HIPAA breeches, hinder communication with certain populations, confuse health messaging, and replace human communication, thereby reducing staffing in practice.
|*Communication[MESH]
|*Guidelines as Topic[MESH]
|Adult[MESH]
|Aged[MESH]
|Aged, 80 and over[MESH]
|Ambulatory Care/*standards[MESH]
|Case Management/*standards[MESH]
|Female[MESH]
|Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act/*standards[MESH]
Prof+Case+Manag 2021 ; 26 (5): 250-254
