Five foundations are sponsoring a physician’s playbook for “high-needs” patients.

Entitled The Playbook: Better Care for People With Complex Needs,  it is supposed to a  clinical resource for handling complicated  medical, behavioral and social needs and offers  guidelines on  such topics such as patient management, successful approaches to care, and advice on policy and payment reform.

The foundations also conducted a survey showing that patients with complex problems tend to lack  adequate access to care and  have a greater than average number of social and economic challenges.  This, of course, would seem obvious.

To read more, please hit this link.