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Health Complexity and the Interaction Between Physical and Behavioral Health Conditions in Adults

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The first chapter of the Physician’s Guide goes into great detail about patient health care assistance and support programs and its case management subcategory, which requires the skills of licensed professionals with case manager competencies that match increasing levels of assist and support program intensity. Since assistance and support programs and the published literature are generally indiscriminant in their use of terminology to describe assistance and support interventions regardless of program intensity or the personnel competencies of those providing services, we will rely on the concepts of program intensity and assist and support personnel competency used in Chap. 1 throughout this book. “Case management” will remain the term that demarcates programs with higher intensity and “case managers” the professionals needed to meet program and patient needs.

“If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.”

—Tom Peters

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  1. University of Minnesota President, Cartesian Solutions, Inc.™, Burnsville, MN, USA

    Roger G. Kathol MD (Adjunct Professor)

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Katherine Hobbs Knutson MD, MPH (Medical Instructor)

  3. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, Edina, MN, USA

    Peter J. Dehnel MD (Medical Director for Case Management and Utilization Management)

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Kathol, R.G., Knutson, K.H., Dehnel, P.J. (2016). Health Complexity and the Interaction Between Physical and Behavioral Health Conditions in Adults. In: Physician's Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28959-5_2

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