How to Improve Integrated Care for People with Chronic Conditions: Key Findings from EU FP-7 Project INTEGRATE and Beyond.

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：Introduction:Not surprisingly given their multi-component nature, initiatives to improve integrated care often evolve to find the best way to bring about change. This paper provides an example of how an evaluation evolved alongside such an initiative designed to better integrate care across primary, community and hospi...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Middleton L,Rea H,Pledger M,Cumming J

更新日期：2019-04-05 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：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: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：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：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：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:Miscommunication and lack of coordination can compromise care quality and patient safety during transitions in care, especially for medically complex older adults. Little research has been done to investigate care transitions from the perspective of those receiving and providing care. METHODS:This study e...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Toscan J,Manderson B,Santi SM,Stolee P

更新日期：2013-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The variable success of integrated care initiatives has led experts to recommend tailoring design and implementation to the organizational context. Yet, organizational contexts are rarely described, understood, or measured with sufficient depth and breadth in empirical studies or in practice. We thus lack ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Evans JM,Grudniewicz A,Gray CS,Wodchis WP,Carswell P,Baker GR

更新日期：2017-06-27 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：:HealthOne was part of a state-wide initiative to invest in new community-based facilities for collocating services. The HealthOne Mount Druitt is a virtual hub and spoke organisation established in 2006 in a socially disadvantaged part of Western Sydney based out of a new community health hub. The model is based on 'v...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： McNab J,Gillespie JA

更新日期：2015-09-23 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：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：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：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:Distributive leadership has been proposed as an effective means towards achieving integrated health services. This study draws from the case of Foundry, a network of integrated youth health centres in British Columbia, Canada, and explores the function and impact of distributive leadership in the context of ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Salmon A,Fernando S,Berger M,Tee K,Gerty K,Helfrich W,Liversidge P

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：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：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：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

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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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：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