INTERMED’s reliability to assess health complexity in primary care: a Brazilian cross-section study

Camila Almeida de Oliveira* (Corresponding Author), Bernadete Weber, Lisa Laredo de Camargo, Estenifer Marque Balco, Michel Arantes Barros, Ana Carolina Guidorizzi Zanetti, Elena Lobo, Magdalena Rzewuska, João Mazzoncini de Azevedo-Marques

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Abstract

Primary health care (PHC) faces an increasing number of patients with complex healthcare needs (physical and mental multimorbidity, functionality decrease, and health service overuse). [1] Thus, there is growing recognition of the importance of using a valid and reliable method or instrument to identify individual healthcare needs in PHC practice. [2] A method or instrument of this nature could help in the planning and personalized delivery of care and facilitate the stratification of the assisted population into different levels per health care needs [3] and age groups...
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)89-90
Number of pages2
JournalGeneral Hospital Psychiatry
Volume81
Early online date4 Mar 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2023

Bibliographical note

We would like to thank the PHC units that helped us with the research.

Data Availability Statement

I have shared the link to my data at attache file step http://repositorio.uspdigital.usp.br/handle/item/263.

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