Why the study?
Do individualized care plans reduce inpatient admissions, ED visits, and costs in medically and psychosocially complex high-utilizing patients?
Population
24 medically and psychosocially complex patients with the highest rates of inpatient admissions and ED…
Comparison
Individualized care plans developed by a… vs Pre-intervention period.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
12 months
Authors
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May support care plans for complex high-utilizers; hypothesis-generating until RCTs confirm.
Do individualized care plans reduce inpatient admissions, ED visits, and costs in medically and psychosocially complex high-utilizing patients?
Individualized care plans developed by a multidisciplinary team and integrated into the EMR significantly reduce hospital admissions and costs for complex, high-utilizing patients.
Mercer et al. (2015) studied this question.
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