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Defining Team Effort Involved in Patient Care from the Primary Care Physician's Perspective.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:A better understanding of the attributes of patients who require more effort to manage may improve risk adjustment approaches and lead to more efficient resource allocation, improved patient care and health outcomes, and reduced burnout in primary care clinicians. OBJECTIVE:To identify and characterize high-effort patients from the physician's perspective. DESIGN:Cohort study. PARTICIPANTS:Ninety-nine primary care physicians in an academic primary care network. MAIN MEASURES:From a list of 100 randomly selected patients in their panels, PCPs identified patients who required a high level of team-based effort and patients they considered complex. For high-effort patients, PCPs indicated which factors influenced their decision: medical/care coordination, behavioral health, and/or socioeconomic factors. We examined differences in patient characteristics based on PCP-defined effort and complexity. KEY RESULTS:Among 9594 eligible patients, PCPs classified 2277 (23.7 %) as high-effort and 2676 (27.9 %) as complex. Behavioral health issues were the major driver of effort in younger patients, while medical/care coordination issues predominated in older patients. Compared to low-effort patients, high-effort patients were significantly (P?

SUBMITTER: Hwang AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5331004 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Defining Team Effort Involved in Patient Care from the Primary Care Physician's Perspective.

Hwang Andrew S AS   Atlas Steven J SJ   Hong Johan J   Ashburner Jeffrey M JM   Zai Adrian H AH   Grant Richard W RW   Hong Clemens S CS  

Journal of general internal medicine 20161021 3


<h4>Background</h4>A better understanding of the attributes of patients who require more effort to manage may improve risk adjustment approaches and lead to more efficient resource allocation, improved patient care and health outcomes, and reduced burnout in primary care clinicians.<h4>Objective</h4>To identify and characterize high-effort patients from the physician's perspective.<h4>Design</h4>Cohort study.<h4>Participants</h4>Ninety-nine primary care physicians in an academic primary care net  ...[more]

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