Value-based integrated care: Exploring strategies to enhance the uptake of integrated care

Creating the Right Sort of Ship to Achieve Integrated Care: A Response to Recent Commentaries

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...

Value-based integrated (renal) care: setting a development agenda for research and implementation strategies

BACKGROUND Integrated care services are considered a vital strategy for improving the Triple Aim values for people with chronic kidney disease. However, a solid scholarly explanation of how to develop, implement and evaluate such value-based integrated renal care services is limited. The aim of this study was to develop a framework to identify the strategies and outcomes for the implementation ...

Integrated care requires integrated supervision

INTRODUCTION Given recent developments in integrated care, it is becoming increasingly important for the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate to direct its supervision in a way that may help speed up the implementation of integrated care. DESCRIPTION OF CARE PRACTICE Since the implementation of integrated care for chronic patients is facing obstacles, alternative methods are required to ensure that...

Integrated care

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 health and improve management and patient satisfaction by working for quality, acc...