TY - JOUR
KW - biopsychosocial
KW - community health center
KW - Complexity
KW - Data analytics
KW - Primary Health Care
KW - Vancouver Coastal Health
AU - A. R. Shukor
AU - R. Joe
AU - G. Sincraian
AU - N. Klazinga
AU - D. S. Kringos
A1 - 
AB - Operationalization of the fundamental building blocks of primary care (i.e. empanelment, team-based care and population management) within the context of Community Health Centers requires accurate and real-time measures of biopsychosocial complexity, at both client and population-levels. This article describes the conceptualization, design and development of a novel software tool (the VCAT-Complexity Module) that can calculate and report real-time person-oriented biopsychosocial complexity profiles, using multiple data sources. The tool aligns with a profile approach to conceptualizing health outcomes, and represents a potentially significant advance over disease-oriented complexity assessment tools. The results and face validity of the software's complexity score outputs are discussed, along with their practical implications on functions related to the development of primary care within Vancouver Coastal Health, a Canadian Regional Health Authority.
AD - Department of Public Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. shukor@gmail.com.; Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), 520 West 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada.; Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), 520 West 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada.; Department of Public Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; Department of Public Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
BT - Community mental health journal
C5 - Education & Workforce; Measures
CP - 8
CY - United States
DO - 10.1007/s10597-019-00417-5
IS - 8
JF - Community mental health journal
LA - eng
M1 - Journal Article
N2 - Operationalization of the fundamental building blocks of primary care (i.e. empanelment, team-based care and population management) within the context of Community Health Centers requires accurate and real-time measures of biopsychosocial complexity, at both client and population-levels. This article describes the conceptualization, design and development of a novel software tool (the VCAT-Complexity Module) that can calculate and report real-time person-oriented biopsychosocial complexity profiles, using multiple data sources. The tool aligns with a profile approach to conceptualizing health outcomes, and represents a potentially significant advance over disease-oriented complexity assessment tools. The results and face validity of the software's complexity score outputs are discussed, along with their practical implications on functions related to the development of primary care within Vancouver Coastal Health, a Canadian Regional Health Authority.
PP - United States
PY - 2019
SN - 1573-2789; 0010-3853
SP - 1326
EP - 1343
EP - 
T1 - A Multi-sourced Data Analytics Approach to Measuring and Assessing Biopsychosocial Complexity: The Vancouver Community Analytics Tool Complexity Module (VCAT-CM)
T2 - Community mental health journal
TI - A Multi-sourced Data Analytics Approach to Measuring and Assessing Biopsychosocial Complexity: The Vancouver Community Analytics Tool Complexity Module (VCAT-CM)
U1 - Education & Workforce; Measures
U2 - 31177480
U3 - 10.1007/s10597-019-00417-5
VL - 55
VO - 1573-2789; 0010-3853
Y1 - 2019
Y2 - Nov
ER -