Defining Complex Patient Populations: Implications for Population Size, Composition, Utilization, and Costs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interventions to support patients with complex needs have proliferated in recent years, but the question of how to identify patients with complex needs has received relatively little attention. There are innumerable ways to structure inclusion and exclusion criteria for complex care interventions, and little is known about the implications of choices made in designing patient selection criteria.

Objective

To provide insights into the design of patient selection criteria for interventions, by implementing criteria sets within a large health plan member population and comparing the characteristics of the resulting complex patient cohorts.

Design

Retrospective observational descriptive study.

Subjects

Patients identified as having complex needs, within

SUBMITTER: Davis AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8811078 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature