Effective Care for High-Need Patients: Opportunities for Improving Outcomes, Value, and Health
NAM July, 2017
A Special Publication from the National Academy of Medicine
To advance insights and perspectives on how to better manage the care of the high-need patient population, the National Academy of Medicine, with guidance from an expert planning committee, was tasked with convening three workshops held between July 2015 and October 2016 and summarizing the presentations, discussions, and the relevant literature. The resulting special publication, Effective Care for High-Need Patients: Opportunities for Improving Outcomes, Value, and Health, reports and reflects on the following issues:
- Key characteristics of high-need patients
- Use of a patient categorization scheme—or a taxonomy—as...