The Effect of Coordinating the Outpatient Treatment across Medical Specialities for Patients With Multimorbidity.

International journal of integrated care(2024)

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Introduction:Patients with multimorbidity attend multiple outpatient clinics. We assessed the effects on hospital use of scheduling several outpatient appointments to same-day visits in a multidisciplinary outpatient pathway (MOP). Methods:This study used a quasi-experimental design. Eligible patients had multimorbidity, were aged ≥18 years and attended ≥2 outpatient clinics in five different specialties. Patients were identified through forthcoming appointments from August 2018 to March 2020 and divided into intervention group (alignment of appointments) and comparison group (no alignment). We used patient questionnaires and paired analyses to study care integration and treatment burden. Using negative binomial regression, we estimated healthcare utilisation as incidence rates ratios (IRRs) at one year before and one year after baseline for both groups and compared IRR ratios (IRRRs). Results:Intervention patients had a 19% reduction in hospital visits (IRRR: 0.81, 95% CI: 0.70-0.96) and a 17% reduction in blood samples (IRRR: 0.83, 0.73-0.96) compared to comparison patients. No effects were found for care integration, treatment burden, outpatient contacts, terminated outpatient trajectories, hospital admissions, days of admission or GP contacts. Conclusion:The MOP seemed to reduce the number of hospital visits and blood samples. These results should be further investigated in studies exploring the coordination of outpatient care for multimorbidity. Research question:Can an intervention of coordinating outpatient appointments to same-day visits combined with a multidisciplinary conference influence the utilisation of healthcare services and the patient-assessed integration of healthcare services and treatment burden among patients with multimorbidity?
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outpatients,hospitals,multimorbidity,delivery of health care,intervention,denmark
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