Developing integrated care. Towards a development model for integrated care

Developing integrated care. Towards a development model for integrated care

The thesis explores the essential elements, implementation and developmental process of integrated care with a view to providing a quality management model for integrated care. Integrated care is required when a coordinated set of services is needed to cover the full range of client demands. The outcomes of this study add relevant information to our knowledge about integrated care and come toge...

Integrated Care: A Pill for All Ills?

There is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. However, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. In this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

A development model for integrated care

Purpose: The objective of the study was to identify the elements and clusters of a quality management model for integrated care. An element was defined as an activity focusing on the development (realization, improvement, innovation or sustainability) of integrated care. Also the developmental process of integrated care was researched resulting in the description of four development phases of i...

Towards integrated health care: a model for assault victims.

integrated care: a pill for all ills?

there is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. however, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. in this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...