“INTERMED”: a method to assess health service needs

Outcomes of a Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Therapy Management Program Focusing on Medication Adherence

“…During the initial consultation (month 0), clinicians used the INTERMED, a validated observer-rated instrument for assessing case complexity and health care needs using a biopsychosocial model, [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] to stratify patients into either the regular-intensity (score of 0 through 20) or high-intensity (score of 21 or more) program. For the regular-intensity program, consultations were conducted intermittently at enrollment (month 0) and months 1, 4, and 6.…”

A brief diagnostic screening instrument for mental disturbances in general medical wards

“…A positive test would thus have to be combined with a clinical assessment or a structured interview, as for example the COMPRI [51], to make psychiatric diagnoses [18,52,53]. A later paper will explore the usefulness of an extended scale that includes separate depression and anxiety subscales.…”

Care Complexity in the General Hospital Results From a European Study

“…32,33 From an extensive list of potential risk factors for complexity mentioned in the literature, we developed a risk score, linearly related to all complexity indicators across the national samples. Using this risk score together with a method of integrating diagnostic information, [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51] we present an alternative way of screening for patients requiring complex care in the general hospital. 31 The main advantages of this approach are that health care becomes preventive and can be planned at admission, as opposed to reacting to patient complications in the course of hospitalization.…”