What is Complex Medical Disease?
In simple words it means disease involving two or more body systems which can have serious consequences and requires frequent monitoring.

To explain it further, Complex Medical Disease is one which:-

1. Can be Life threatening.
2. Affects multiple organs of body.
3. Can cause serious limitations to daily activities that lead to reduced quality of life.
4. Involves high risk treatments.
5. Requires body parameters to be maintained in narrow, normal, therapeutic range.
6. Requires frequent monitoring of different body functions.
7. Requires frequent monitoring of medicine dosages and their effects/side effects.

Some examples of Complex Medical Cases:

How does management of Complex Medical Disease differ from Simple Medical Disease?

Simple Medical Disease can be managed or treated in few days and does not require additional investigations. As opposed to that, In Complex Medical Disease –

• A doctor is required to do an in-depth analysis to identify exact cause or causes through specialized physical, biochemical and radio-logical examinations.
• A doctor needs to identify potential risk carried by either disease or the treatment and device a plan which avoids both these risk.
• A doctor needs to reasonably predict response to the treatment with the available information.
• A doctor needs to proactively advise regular investigations and follow-ups to identify and avoid future medical complications which can be part of the disease progression or side effect of the established standard treatment regime.
• A doctor and patient needs to make significant commitment of time and efforts for a considerable period.