Integrated care: a position paper of the WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of follow-up visits by the general practitioner and district nurse (within a week after discharge from hospital) is to reduce hospital readmissions and improve the overall wellbeing of the patient. There is strong evidence that these programmes are effective, but are difficult to implement because of...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Hjelmar U,Hendriksen C,Hansen K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A growing number of people are living with complex care needs characterized by multimorbidity, mental health challenges and social deprivation. Required is the integration of health and social care, beyond traditional health care services to address social determinants. This study investigates key care com...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Kuluski K,Ho JW,Hans PK,Nelson M

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The literature on integration indicates the need for an enhanced theorization of institutional integration. This article proposes path dependence as an analytical framework to study the systems in which integration takes place. PURPOSE:PRISMA proposes a model for integrating health and social care services ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Trouvé H,Couturier Y,Etheridge F,Saint-Jean O,Somme D

更新日期：2010-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Chronicity, and particularly complex care needs for people with chronic diseases is one of the main challenges of health systems. Objective:To determine the population prevalence of people with chronic diseases and complex care needs and to characterize these needs considering features of health and social ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Iglesias FH,Celada CA,Navarro CB,Morales LP,Visus NA,Valverde CC,Dorado VM,Martínez Muñoz ML,Pueyo CB,Ramírez EL,Villaroel RM,Jordana NM,Bonet Simó JM,SABCOMP group.

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Current U.S. policy and payment initiatives aim to encourage health care provider accountability for population health and higher value care, resulting in efforts to integrate providers along the continuum. Providers work together through diverse organizational structures, yet evidence is limited regarding...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Heeringa J,Mutti A,Furukawa MF,Lechner A,Maurer KA,Rich E

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the feasibility of regional physical therapy networks including continuing education in rheumatology. The aim of these networks was to improve care provided by primary care physical therapists by improving specific knowledge, technical and communicative skills and the collaboration with rheumatologi...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Verhoef J,Oosterveld FG,Hoekman R,Munneke M,Boonman DC,Bakker M,Otten W,Rasker JJ,de Vries-Vander Zwan HM,Vliet Vlieland TP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores legislative provisions in relation to patient privacy in the context of integrated health and social care and the development of multidisciplinary health care teams that include practitioners from private sector and government agencies in the health, education, child protection, family welfare, d...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Eastwood J,Maitland-Scott I

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:In 2006 the Labour Government in England published its long awaited White Paper on 'community services', following on from the 2005 Green Paper on the future of social care. The policy envisages an unprecedented shift of activity and resources from acute care to community settings, along with a much stronger fo...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Hudson B

更新日期：2006-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:In March 2014, the New South Wales (NSW) Government (Australia) announced the NSW Integrated Care Strategy. In response, a family-centred, population-based, integrated care initiative for vulnerable families and their children in Sydney, Australia was developed. The initiative was called Healthy Homes and ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Eastwood JG,Woolfenden S,Miller E,Shaw M,Garg P,Liu H,De Souza DE,Ettema RGA

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Integrated care systems as well as accountable care organisations (ACOs) in the US and similar concepts in other countries are advocated as an effective method of improving the performance of healthcare systems. These systems outline a payment and care delivery model that intends to tie provider reimbursem...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Mühlbacher AC,Amelung VE,Juhnke C

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop an in-depth understanding of a shared care model from primary mental health and nutrition care practitioners with a focus on program goals, strengths, challenges and target population benefits. DESIGN:Qualitative method of focus groups. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS:The study involved fifty-three practiti...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Paquette-Warren J,Vingilis E,Greenslade J,Newnam S

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integration involves the coordination of services provided by autonomous agencies and improves the organization and delivery of multiple services for target patients. Current measures generally do not distinguish between agencies' perception and expectation. We propose a method for quantifying the agencies' ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Ye C,Browne G,Grdisa VS,Beyene J,Thabane L

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the prevalence of long-term and multimorbid conditions is increasing, patients increasingly require consultations with multiple health care professionals and coordination of their care needs. METHODS:This study is based on a 2011 survey of older Australians which draws on sub-populations of people with d...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Dawda P,McRae IS,Yen L,Islam MM,Bagheri N,Jowsey T,Banfield M,Parkinson A

更新日期：2015-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Many care organisations claim to employ multidisciplinary teams, but the term is used to describe quite different forms of collaboration. A systemic view of the work organisation of care delivery is presented and applied in this article that allows to identify and understand often overlooked yet important ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Pless S,Van Hootegem G,Dessers E

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In 2002 the Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted goals for reducing the burden of chronic disease through a new screening program in its publicly funded health centers ("Dom Zdravljas"). This study evaluated the first year of program implementation. METHODS:The evaluation used in-depth inter...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Rodic R,Krajnovic V,Howell EM,Vukovic V,Bomestar N

更新日期：2008-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving the healthcare for patients with depression is a priority health policy across the world. Roughly, two major problems can be identified in daily practice: (1) the content of care is often not completely consistent with recommendations in guidelines and (2) the organization of care is not always int...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Franx G,Meeuwissen JA,Sinnema H,Spijker J,Huyser J,Wensing M,de Lange J

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:The aim of this review is to systematically assess the methodological quality of economic evaluations in integrated care and to identify challenges with conducting such studies. Theory and methods:Searches of grey-literature and scientific papers were performed, from January 2000 to December 2018. A check...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Kadu M,Ehrenberg N,Stein V,Tsiachristas A

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Frail older people living in the community require multidisciplinary care. Despite the fact that patient participation is high on the public agenda, studies into multidisciplinary care mainly focus on the viewpoints of professionals. Little is known about frail older patients' experiences with care delivered...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Grol SM,Molleman GRM,Wensing M,Kuijpers A,Scholte JK,van den Muijsenbergh MTC,Scherpbier ND,Schers HJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:To explore health professionals' perspectives on communication, continuity and between-service coordination for improving cancer care for Indigenous people in Queensland. Methods:Semi-structured interviews were conducted in a purposive sample of primary health care (PHC) services in Queensland with Indigenous and ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： de Witt A,Matthews V,Bailie R,Garvey G,Valery PC,Adams J,Martin JH,Cunningham FC

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We analysed the integrated planning model adopted by the Italian region Emilia Romagna in year 2000 to cover the entire range of treatment of cardiovascular disease. This model, called "hub and spoke", provides for the transfer of patient care and treatment from peripheral units (the spokes) to central units ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Ugolini C,Nobilio L

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The 2004 Children Act in the UK saw the introduction of integrated working in children's services. A raft of change followed with processes designed to make joint working easier, and models and theories to support the development of integrated work. This paper explores the links between key concepts and pr...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Stuart K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the circumstances as to why it is so difficult in the primary care sector to implement IT based infrastructures supporting shared care. CASE STUDY:The qualitative analysis includes two separate case studies of IT-supported shared care implemented in two different regions of Denmark throughout 20...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Granlien MF,Simonsen J

更新日期：2007-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Increasing continuity of care has been identified as a strategy to improve patient outcomes, but previous studies of integrated care have tended to focus on pilot areas, which limit their generalisability and the ability to determine in which contexts integrated care was most successful. OBJECTIVE:This st...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Lloyd T,Steventon A

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Collaboration between welfare organizations is an important strategy for integrating different health and welfare services. This article reports a review of the international literature on vocational rehabilitation, focusing on different organizational models of collaboration as well as different barriers ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Andersson J,Ahgren B,Axelsson SB,Eriksson A,Axelsson R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Description and analysis of the effects and side-effects of integrated mental health care in the Netherlands. CONTEXT OF CASE:Due to a number of large-scale mergers, Dutch mental health care has become an illustration of integration and coherence of care services. This process of integration, however, has not ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Hutschemaekers GJ,Tiemens BG,de Winter M

更新日期：2007-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Multidisciplinary group meetings are one of the key drivers of facilitating integrated care. Health care professionals attending such groups have a key role in the success of these discussions and hence, in the forming of multi-professional integrated care. The study aimed to explore the professionals' exp...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Kassianos AP,Ignatowicz A,Greenfield G,Majeed A,Car J,Pappas Y

更新日期：2015-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：THEME:Two central themes permeate this paper-the interplay between structure and agency in integration processes and the extent to which this is mediated through sensemaking by individual actors. CASE STUDY:The empirical base for the paper is provided by case study research from Wales which draws on examples of differ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Williams P,Sullivan H

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:The Healthy Homes and Neighbourhoods (HHAN) Integrated Care Program seeks to enhance vulnerable family engagement with health and social services through a care coordination model. Besides servicing families in Sydney, HHAN has also established place-based initiatives (PBIs) in areas of disadvantage such a...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Eastwood J,Barmaky S,Hansen S,Millere E,Ratcliff S,Fotheringham P,Coupland H,De Souza D

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) recently celebrated its 20th International Conference (ICIC20) through a virtual event that brought together patients and carers, academics, care professionals, NGOs, policy-makers and industry partners from across the global integrated care community [1]. The In...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： van der Vlegel-Brouwer W,van Kemenade E,Stein KV,Goodwin N,Miller R

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The current demographic shift raises the demand for provision of health care tailored to the complex care needs for older adults. Given the growing number of national care plans and best practice models there is an urgent need to build evidence for inter- and multiprofessional care provision for older people when offe...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Platzer E,Singler K,Dovjak P,Wirnsberger G,Perl A,Lindner S,Liew A,Roller-Wirnsberger RE

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00