Models of Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients

"This brief analyzes experts’ reviews of evidence about care models designed to improve outcomes and reduce costs for patients with complex needs. It finds that successful models have several common attributes"

Models of Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients: An Evidence Synthesis
D McCarthy, J Ryan, S Klein
The Commonwealth Fund
October 2015

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A qualitative analysis of information sharing for children with medical complexity within and across health care organizations

"Information exchange is critically important in high quality care of complex patients at high risk for poor care coordination. Written care plans for children with medical complexity are an excellent test case for how well information sharing is currently occurring. The purpose of this study was to identify the barriers to and facilitators of information sharing for CMC across providers, care settings, and families."

A qualitative analysis of information sharing for children with medical complexity within and across health care organizations
L Quigley, A Lacombe-Duncan, S Adams, C Moore Hepburn, E Cohen
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:283

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The importance of multimorbidity in explaining utilisation and costs

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This work forms a basis for identifying groups that would most benefit from improved integrated 

care, which might be facilitated by integrated financial arrangements and better pathway 

management

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The importance of multimorbidity in explaining utilisation and costs across health and social care settings: evidence from South Somerset’s Symphony Project

P Kasteridis, A Street, M Dolman, L Gallier, K Hudson, J Martin, I Wyer

Centre for Health Economics, University of York 

February 2014

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Co-ordinated care for people with complex chronic conditions

"Based on a comparative analysis of five UK-based case studies of care co-ordination programmes for people with long-term and complex chronic conditions, this report examines key lessons and markers for success in the ‘how’ of care co-ordination that might be transferable to different contexts and settings."

Co-ordinated care for people with complex chronic conditions: key lessons and markers for success
N Goodwin, L Sonola, V Thiel, DL Kodner
The King's Fund
October 2013

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