Optimizing the multidisciplinary team to enhance care coordination across the continuum for children with medical complexity.

The number of individual patients needing the support of complex care coordination to help manage chronic illness and functional disability and to negotiate systemic barriers to care continues to grow. Children with medical complexity (CMC) require a multidisciplinary team approach to address their complex health care needs.  CMC may have multiple health conditions affecting numerous body systems, increased use of the health care system, and technology dependence.

A Tertiary Care-based Complex Care Program: Improving Care for Children With Medical Complexity.

Objective: Children with medical complexity (CMC) have significant health care costs, but they also experience substantial unmet health care needs, hospitalizations, and medical errors. Their parents often report psychosocial stressors and poor care satisfaction. Complex care programs can improve the care for CMC.