Does it matter who organises your health care?

abstract：:This paper aims to identify problems in estimating and the interpretation of the magnitude of intervention-related change over time or responsiveness assessed with health outcome measures. Responsiveness is a problematic construct and there is no consensus on how to quantify the appropriate index to estimate change ov...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Middel B,van Sonderen E

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：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: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：:The WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services in Barcelona is an integral part of the World Health Organizations' Regional Office for Europe. The main purpose of the Barcelona office is within the integration of services to encourage and facilitate changes in health care services in order to promote heal...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Gröne O,Garcia-Barbero M,WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services.

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:In March 2009 members of the research, policy and practice communities in the fields of ageing and disability came together in Barcelona for the first international conference on bridging knowledge in long-term care and support. This paper presents a brief snapshot of some of the key themes and ideas that emerged duri...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： McDaid D,Cieza A,Gomez AR

更新日期：2009-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Most current care models are disease- or symptom-focused and mostly do not account for the individual needs of patients with chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to develop an innovative, evidence-based and expert-based practice model for the management of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Meth...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Timpel P,Lang C,Wens J,Contel JC,Schwarz PEH,MANAGE CARE Study Group.

更新日期：2020-04-22 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：:By the introduction of a public, mandatory program of Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) on April 1, 2000, Japan has moved towards a system of social care for the frail and elderly. The program covers care that is both home-based and institutional. Fifty percent of the insurance is financed from the general tax and the o...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Matsuda S,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the need for integrated neighborhood approaches (INAs) is widely recognized, we lack insight into strategies like INA. We describe diverse Dutch INA partners' experiences to provide integrated person- and population-centered support to community-dwelling older people using an adapted version of Vale...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： van Dijk HM,Cramm JM,Nieboer AP

更新日期：2016-05-12 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 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：PROBLEM STATEMENT:Health care delivery in Germany is highly fragmented, resulting in poor vertical and horizontal integration and a system that is focused on curing acute illness or single diseases instead of managing patients with more complex or chronic conditions, or managing the health of determined populations. Wh...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Schlette S,Lisac M,Blum K

更新日期：2009-04-20 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：: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：Introduction:Primary care is increasingly being confronted with complex health care demands stemming from both biomedical and psychosocial problems of people with chronic diseases. Interprofessional collaboration is needed to enhance person-centredness and coordinate care provision in an efficient manner, which should ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： van Dongen JJJ,van Bokhoven MA,Goossens WNM,Daniëls R,van der Weijden T,Beurskens A

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This paper reports on some of the findings of a literature review commissioned to explore integrated care for older people. METHODS:The process of revising included finding and selecting literature from multidisciplinary sources, and encompassed both published papers and 'grey' literature, i.e. material which ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Reed J,Cook G,Childs S,McCormack B

更新日期：2005-01-01 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: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: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：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：:The annual amount spent on healthcare per capita is higher and expected to grow in the U.S. compared to healthier level 4 countries (e.g., United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Netherlands), while health outcomes continue to be suboptimal [123]. Therefore, healthcare is slowly shifting from a fee-...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Lyles LF,Hildebrandt H,Mair A

更新日期：2020-06-25 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of case studies in health services research has proven to be an excellent methodology for gaining in-depth understanding of the organisation and delivery of health care. This is particularly relevant when looking at the complexity of integrated healthcare programmes, where multifaceted interactions o...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Cash-Gibson L,Rosenmoller M

更新日期：2014-12-15 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:China has adopted a people-centred integrated care model to reform its severely hospital-centric and fragmented delivery system. As a template of this model in urban China, the Luohu Hospital Group has generated considerable public and academic interest to scale it up. Methods:Guided by a policy triangle ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Liang D,Mei L,Chen Y,Zhou P,Yang X,Huang J

更新日期：2020-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Dyspnea is a common complaint and in 70 to 90% the origin is pulmonary or cardiovascular. However, referral to the "wrong" specialism could result in diagnostic- and treatment delay. Integrated care by a cardiologist and a pulmonologist could improve this. The aim of the present study was to evaluate wheth...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Rietbroek MV,Slats AM,Kiès P,de Grooth GJ,Chavannes NH,Taube C,Bonten TN

更新日期：2018-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disease management programs (DMP) aim at improving coordination and quality of care and reducing healthcare costs for specific chronic diseases. This paper investigates to what extent total healthcare utilization of type 2 diabetes patients is actually related to diabetes and its implications for diabetes ma...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： van Dijk CE,Verheij RA,Swinkels IC,Rijken M,Schellevis FG,Groenewegen PP,de Bakker DH

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00