The authors of this editorial highlight some of the myths surrounding complex care management, identify areas where research could be most informative, and recommend best next steps in developing ...

Recent data shows that patients admitted to short-term acute care hospitals (STACHs) have increasingly complicated medical conditions. This has led many hospitals to seek support from experienced ...

Caring for complex patients — those experiencing a laundry list of conditions simultaneously — can be challenging for any physician. From incorporating multiple specialists to working with social ...

Hospital-based rehabilitation programs are expecting to see a major influx of medically complex patients in the coming decades. However, COVID-19 has further spurred the drastic increase and caused an ...

Across Pennsylvania’s health systems, hundreds of children with disabilities or complex medical conditions live in hospitals ...

This paper utilizes latent class analysis to identify subgroups of complex conditions and of super-utilizers among health center patients to inform clinically tailored efforts. Objectives: Existing ...

For patients with complex coronary artery disease deemed ineligible for surgery, the short-term risk of death with PCI is considerably lower than the evaluating surgeon’s risk estimate, according to ...

Complexity in Health Care: A Paradigm shift for Clinical Practice (Springer 2023) by Steven A. Frankel, Steven D. Thurber, and James A. Bourgeois offers a healthy departure from standard approaches to ...

With more people living longer, it’s becoming likelier that an individual will be dealing with more than one chronic health condition, such as heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, any number ...

PARIS, France—One month of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), compared with 3 months or longer, is sufficient for PCI patients at high bleeding risk (HBR) regardless of procedural complexity, according ...