Trial reportJournal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM2025
Perceptions of Medically Complex Patients Enrolled in an Ambulatory Intensive Care Unit at a Healthcare-for-the-Homeless Clinic.
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- Clinical Variables Associated with Physician-Driven Inclusion in a Special Management Program for Complex Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Homelessness response: a framework for action by hospitals and healthcare systems.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundThere is great interest in intensive primary care interventions to address high utilization among medically and socially complex patients. How patients experience these interventions has received less attention.
objectiveTo better understand patients' experience of intensive primary care, we interviewed patients receiving care from the Streamlined Unified Meaningfully Managed Interdisciplinary Team (SUMMIT), an ambulatory intensive care intervention at an urban federally qualified health center.
methodsWe interviewed 25 participants enrolled in the SUMMIT randomized controlled trial and conducted a Reflective Thematic Analysis using a hybrid inductive-deductive approach.
resultsPatients reported high levels of medical and social needs that outstripped prior levels of care and resources. They perceived multiple benefits of SUMMIT through the following themes: 1) Team-based care with improved access to services. Patients appreciated their medical and social needs being met, through higher-level, multidisciplinary care. 2) Caring relationships. Patients described the SUMMIT team as being like family and felt that team members had a genuine sense of duty and obligation toward them. 3) Overcoming stigma. Patients felt valued and treated with dignity. 4) Evolving self-efficacy. Over time, patients experienced increasing success, including engagement in care and improved health behaviors.
conclusionPatients perceived the SUMMIT team as better meeting their health-related needs, compared with traditional primary care. They spoke of the team as family and felt humanized and supported in overcoming barriers to engagement, which led to increased self-efficacy. Evaluations assessing the effectiveness of intensive primary care should measure potential patient-centered benefits beyond short-term utilization and cost reduction.
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