Improving care for patients with multiple long-term conditions admitted to hospital: challenges and potential solutions.
Br J Hosp Med (Lond)
; 85(3): 1-8, 2024 Mar 02.
Article
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| ID: mdl-38557098
ABSTRACT
Increasing numbers of people live with multiple long-term conditions. These people are more likely to be admitted to hospital, experience adverse outcomes and receive poorer quality care than those with a single condition. Hospitals remain organised around a model of single-organ, disease-specific care which is not equipped to meet the needs of people living with multiple long-term conditions. This article considers these challenges and explores potential solutions. These include different service models to provide holistic, multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient care across specialty boundaries, training a workforce to deliver high-quality hospital care for people living with multiple long-term conditions, and developing technological, financial and cultural enablers of change. Considerably more research is required to fully appreciate the shared risk factors, underlying mechanisms, patterns and consequences of multiple long-term conditions. This is essential to design and deliver better structures and processes of hospital care for people living with multiple long-term conditions.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Quality Improvement
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Hospitalization
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Br J Hosp Med (Lond)
Journal subject:
HOSPITAIS
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MEDICINA
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Reino Unido