The Intersection of Complex Care and Hospital Medicine: Opportunities to Advance Health for Chronically Ill Populations

Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a high-need, high-cost population representing 1% of all children yet accounting for nearly one-third of all child health-related costs. Parents of CMC take responsibility for the vast majority of caregiving and face many challenges in doing so. Caregivers themselves experience physical and mental health problems that can compromise their ability to effectively perform caregiving tasks. Additionally, direct clinical encounters for CMC in health care settings are often inefficient and poorly coordinated.

Pediatric hospitalists have an essential role to play in the development of innovative solutions to improve care for CMC. In response, hospitalists have been integral in refining and studying structured complex care programs for CMC. In this article, HIP Investigator, Dr. Ryan Coller et al. evaluated complex care program efforts to improve care for CMC.

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