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Do ‘Virtual Wards’ reduce rates of unplanned hospital admissions and at what cost? A research protocol using propensity matched controls

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2011
Background: This retrospective study will assess the extent to which multidisciplinary case management in the form of virtual wards (VWs) leads to changes in the use of health care and social care by patients at high risk of future unplanned hospital ...
Geraint Hywel Lewis, Martin Bardsley, Rhema Vaithianathan, Adam Steventon, Theo Georghiou, John Billings, Jennifer Dixon   +6 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Project INTEGRATE: Developing a Framework to Guide Design, Implementation and Evaluation of People-centred Integrated Care Processes

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Background: People-centred integrated care is an acknowledged approach to improve the quality and effectiveness of health systems in delivering care around people’s needs and preferences.
Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Olena Tigova, Albert Alonso, George Binkley, Magda Rosenmöller   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated stepped alcohol treatment for patients with HIV and at-risk alcohol use: a randomized trial

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2020
Background At-risk levels of alcohol use threaten the health of patients with HIV (PWH), yet evidence-based strategies to decrease alcohol use and improve HIV-related outcomes in this population are lacking.
E. Jennifer Edelman, Stephen A. Maisto, Nathan B. Hansen, Christopher J. Cutter, James Dziura, Yanhong Deng, Lynn E. Fiellin, Patrick G. O’Connor, Roger Bedimo, Cynthia L. Gibert, Vincent C. Marconi, David Rimland, Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas, Michael S. Simberkoff, Janet P. Tate, Amy C. Justice, Kendall J. Bryant, David A. Fiellin   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating Person-Centred Integrated Care to People with Complex Chronic Conditions: Early Implementation Results of the ProPCC Programme

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2023
Introduction: The evaluation of integrated care programmes for high-need high-cost older people is a challenge. We aim to share the early implementation results of the ProPCC programme in the North-Barcelona metropolitan area, in Catalonia, Spain ...
Miquel À. Mas, Ramón Miralles, Maria J. Ulldemolins, Ria Gracia, Sònia Gràcia, Josep M. Picaza, Mercedes Navarro Fernández, Maria A. Rocabayera, Montserrat Rivera, Núria Relaño, Mireia Torres Asensio, Pilar Laporta, Celia Morcillo, Laura Nadal, Ramona Hervás, Dolors Fuguet, Cristina Alba, Núria Miralles Banqué, Sònia Jiménez Panés, Miriam Moreno Moreno, Carmen Nogueras, Helena Manjón Navarro, Rosa López, Guillem Hernández, Francesc López-Seguí, Laura Ricou Ríos, Arnau Pons, Núria Prat, Jordi Ara Del Rey, Oriol Estrada   +29 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Numbers, systems, people: how interactions influence integration. Insights from case studies of HIV and reproductive health services delivery in Kenya. [PDF]

, 2017
Drawing on rich data from the Integra evaluation of integrated HIV and reproductive-health services, we explored the interaction of systems hardware and software factors to explain why some facilities were able to implement and sustain integrated service
Collumbien, Martine, Colombini, Manuela, Integra Initiative, Lut, Irina, Mayhew, Susannah H, Mutemwa, Richard, Ndwiga, Charity, Sweeney, Sedona, Vassall, Anna, Warren, Charlotte E   +9 more
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Strengthening the delivery of integrated physical health care for adults experiencing serious mental illness: a scoping review of interventions in mental health settings

Frontiers in Health Services
Individuals living with serious mental illness (SMI) face significant barriers to accessing appropriate physical health care, poorer associated health outcomes and premature mortality compared to the general population.
Munazzah Ambreen, Sihan Zhang, Osnat C. Melamed, Osnat C. Melamed, Christopher Canning, Christopher Canning, Brian Lo, Brian Lo, Sri Mahavir Agarwal, Sri Mahavir Agarwal, Amer M. Burhan, Amer M. Burhan, M. Elisabeth Del Giudice, Mary Rose van Kesteren, Barna Konkolÿ Thege, Barna Konkolÿ Thege, Sanjeev Sockalingam, Sanjeev Sockalingam, Terri Rodak, Tania Tajirian, Tania Tajirian, Caroline Walker, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Vicky Stergiopoulos   +24 more
doaj   +1 more source

A governance model for integrated primary/ secondary care for the health-reforming first world: results of a systematic review [PDF]

, 2013
Internationally, key health care reform elements rely on improved integration of care between the primary and secondary sectors. The objective of this systematic review is to synthesise the existing published literature on elements of current integrated ...
A Harden, B Hutchison, C Ham, C Nicholson, Caroline Nicholson, CL Jackson, CL Jackson, CL Jackson, CL Jackson, CL Jackson, Claire Jackson, Commonwealth of Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, DR Rittenhouse, E Nolte, E Suter, G Powell Davies, GA Armitage, GR Baker, I Featherstone, J Cumming, J Noyes, J Ovretveit, John Marley, L Smyth, LL Pederson, M Connor, M Dixon-Woods, M Harris, M Sandelowski, Ministry of Health, R Rosen, R Wedel, RA Paulus, RAND Europe, Ernst & Young LLP, RJ Fraschetti, S Peskett, S Shaw, Scottish Executive, The NHS Confederation   +40 more
core   +1 more source