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Integration and continuity of primary care: polyclinics and alternatives - a patient-centred analysis of how organisation constrains care co-ordination [PDF]

, 2015
Background An ageing population, the increasing specialisation of clinical services and diverse health-care provider ownership make the co-ordination and continuity of complex care increasingly problematic.
Exworthy, M., Exworthy, Mark; id_orcid, Halliday, J., Ovretveit, J., Asthana, Sheena, Peckham, S, Øvretveit, John, Halliday, J, Peckham, Stephen, Rod Sheaff, Sheaff, WR, Sheaff, R., Sheaff, Rod, Stephen Peckham, Byng, R., Asthana, S., Øvretveit, J, Richard Byng, Mark Exworthy, John Øvretveit, Asthana, S, Joyce Halliday, Sheena Asthana, Exworthy, Mark, Halliday, Joyce, Exworthy, M, Ovretveit, John, Byng, Richard, Byng, R   +28 more
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Strategies for Building Delivery Science in an Integrated Health Care System [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2019
Health systems today have increasing opportunities and imperatives to conduct delivery science, which is applied research that evaluates clinical or organizational practices that systems can implement or encourage. Examples include research on eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension management and on identifying the types of patients who ...
Tracy A, Lieu, Philip R, Madvig
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Role and outcomes of community health workers in HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa : a systematic review [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction: The provision of HIV treatment and care in sub-Saharan Africa faces multiple challenges, including weak health systems and attrition of trained health workers. One potential response to overcome these challenges has been to engage community
Grace W Mwai, Seeley, Janet, Janet Seeley, Gitau Mburu, Peter Frost, Mwai, Grace W., Ford, Nathan, Nathan Ford, Kwasi Torpey, Mburu, Gitau, Frost, Peter, Torpey, Kwasi, Kwasi, Torpey, Mwai, Grace W   +13 more
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Integrated Care in New Zealand

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2011
Background: New Zealand's health system has long been seen as providing highly fragmented, poorly co-ordinated services to service users. A continuing policy challenge has been how to reduce such fragmentation and achieve more 'integrated' care, that is,
Jacqueline Margaret Cumming
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Challenges and solutions to nurse-delivered integrated primary health care in Nelson Mandela Bay

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Background: Delivery of a comprehensive and integrated primary health care service to increase healthcare access, quality, equity and efficiency requires an effective working environment.
Zubrina Baartman, Cornelle Young, Justine C. Baron   +2 more
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What is appropriate care? An integrative review of emerging themes in the literature

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Health care improvement efforts should be aligned in order to make a meaningful impact on health systems. Appropriate care delivery could be a unifying goal to help coordinate efforts to improve health outcomes and ensure system sustainability.
Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Tricia J. Johnson   +2 more
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Psychology can be indispensable to health care reform and the patient-centered medical home

, 2019
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed into legislation in March 2010, making health care reform a reality. Perhaps the most well-developed model of primary care that aligns with the PPACA's agenda is the patient-centered ...
Runyan, Christine N.
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Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre Phase 2 – Year 3 Annual Report (August 2021 to July 2022) [PDF]

, 2022
This Year 3 annual report sets out the significant impact made by DHI over the past 12 months with continued success to report evident, including 5 projects transferred to other organisations as ready to scale.
Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI)
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Changes in Quality of Health Care Delivery after Vertical Integration [PDF]

Health Services Research, 2014
ObjectivesTo fill an empirical gap in the literature by examining changes in quality of care measures occurring when multispecialty clinic systems were acquired by hospital‐owned, vertically integrated health care delivery systems in the Twin Cities area.Data Sources/Study SettingAdministrative data for health plan enrollees attributed to treatment and
Caroline S, Carlin, Bryan, Dowd, Roger, Feldman   +2 more
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Drivers of successful implementation of integrated care for multi-morbidity: mechanisms identified in 17 case studies from 8 European countries [PDF]

, 2021
This paper provides a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying implementation strategies for integrated care. As part of the SELFIE project, 17 integrated care programmes addressing multi-morbidity from eight European countries were selected and
WM (Willemijn) Looman, the SELFIE consortium, Janos Pitter, Jonathan Stokes, Baltaxe, Erik, Bal, Roland, Rutten-van Molken, maureen, Pitter, Janos, Huic, Mirjana, Mölken, Maureen Rutten-van, Sabine Ruths, Stockes, Jonathan, Verena Struckmann, Czypionka, Thomas, Struckmann, Verena, Ruths, Sabine, Thomas Czypionka, Bal, Roland; id_orcid, Stokes, Jonathan, Köppen, Julia, Stokes, Jonathan; id_orcid, Looman, Willemijn, Erik Baltaxe, MPMH (Maureen) Rutten - van Molken, Mirjana Huic, Rutten-van Mölken, Maureen; id_orcid, Julia Köppen, RA (Roland) Bal   +27 more
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