The complexity of patients hospitalized in Internal Medicine wards evaluated by FADOI-COMPLIMED score(s). A hypothetical approach.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to develop a new predictive model to measure complexity of patients in medical wards.

Setting: 29 Internal Medicine departments in Italy.

Materials And Methods: The study cohort was made of 541 consecutive patients hospitalized for any cause, aged more than 40 years and with at least two chronic diseases.