A Realist Evaluation of Local Networks Designed to Achieve More Integrated Care.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Joint training for interagency working is carried out by Local Safeguarding Children Boards in England to promote effective local working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. PURPOSE:This paper reports on the findings of the outputs and outcomes of interagency training to safeguard children in ...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Patsios D,Carpenter J

更新日期：2010-11-16 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：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：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: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：: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: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：: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：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：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 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：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：: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：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:To meet the needs of vulnerable people, the integration of services across different sectors is important. This paper presents a preliminary review of service integration across sectors in Europe. Examples of service integration between social services, health, employment and/or education were studied. A f...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： van Duijn S,Zonneveld N,Lara Montero A,Minkman M,Nies H

更新日期：2018-04-19 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：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：: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: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：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：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: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：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：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：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study is to explore the obstacles to collaborations between nurses in hospital and municipal care in the discharge of hospital patients who need continuing care. METHODS:First, we conducted in-depth interviews of nurses in hospitals and nurses in municipal care. Second, we developed questi...

journal_title：International journal of integrated care

authors： Paulsen B,Romøren TI,Grimsmo A

更新日期：2013-03-14 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: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：: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：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：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