Stratifying clinical complexity of dermatology outpatient visits: validation of a pilot instrument

The United States population is aging and increasing in comorbidity, and patient care is accordingly growing increasingly complex. Complexity impacts patterns of resource consumption, adverse event and medical error rates, health-related quality of life, physician burnout, and more. Tools capturing complexity can be of benefit in the modern value-based reimbursement landscape and have been well-studied in specialties other than dermatology. In this paper, we describe the validation of a tool specific to outpatient dermatologic care that captures the complexity of clinical visit medical decision-making.

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