High-Need Patients' Goals and Goal Progress in a Veterans Affairs Intensive Outpatient Care Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare systems nationwide are implementing intensive outpatient care programs to optimize care for high-need patients; however, little is known about these patients' personal goals and factors associated with goal progress.

Objective

To describe high-need patients' goals, and to identify factors associated with their goal progress DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study PARTICIPANTS: A total of 113 high-need patients participated in a single-site Veterans Affairs intensive outpatient care program.

Main measures

Two independent reviewers examined patients' goals recorded in the electronic health record, categorized each goal into one of three domains (medical, behavioral, or social), and determined whether patients attained goal progress during program partic

SUBMITTER: Hsu KY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6667543 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature