Commonwealth Fund September 8, 2017
Designing a high-performance health care system for people with multiple chronic conditions, advanced illness, or other complex health and social problems can require paradigm shifts in how care is provided. It might, for example, mean moving away from disease-specific care delivery and toward more patient-centered approaches, or away from the single-provider model and toward cooperation and teamwork.
Earlier this year, The Commonwealth Fund’s International Experts Working Group on Patients with Complex Needs identified the principles underpinning high performance in care for patients with high needs...