Providing better care for patients with complex needs in acute medicine.

Patients with complex needs are commonly admitted on the acute medical take and comprise a significant proportion of the workload for an acute physician. An innovative multi-professional approach to the assessment of this group of patients has been developed in Edinburgh; this paper summarises the results of a 4 week review of data collected on patients assessed by the multiprofessional team on the Medical Assessment Unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.