Complex Care Hospital Use and Postdischarge Coaching: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Complex care programs seek to influence key health outcomes for children with medical complexity (CMC), and investment in program infrastructure is often justified by anticipating savings from lower health care use. HIP Investigator, Dr. Ryan Coller et al. sought to examine the effect of a caregiver coaching intervention, Plans for Action and Care Transitions (PACT), on hospital use among children with medical complexity (CMC) within a complex care medical home. Among CMC within a complex care program, a health coaching intervention designed to identify, prevent, and manage patient-specific crises and postdischarge transitions appears to lower hospitalizations and charges.

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