Evaluation of disease management programmes for chronically ill

One of the most important elements of the DMPs was the assignment of patients to one specific care provider of a collaborative practice team, consisting of a general practitioner (GP), nurse specialist and medical specialist, as based on complexity of care. Patients with low complexity of care were taken care of by the GP, patients with medium complexity of care received care from the nurse specialist, while the medical specialist treated patients with high complexity of care.