'Guided care' model offers a new approach for costly, complex cases.
Confronting high-cost and complexity with innovation. That's the promise of an exciting new model of care developed at Johns Hopkins University. The approach, called guided care, is designed specifically for older patients with multiple chronic diseases, and early indications are that it can deliver an improved quality of life while easing the heavy burden of chronic care management on PCPs. Further, these dividends appear to come with a financial advantage as well.
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