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 coord

SUBMITTER: Hwang AS 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature