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All Together Now: A Conceptual Exploration of Integrated Care

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Kodner, Dennis·2009·Healthcare Quarterly

Abstract

Integrated care is a key strategy in reforming health systems around the world. Despite its importance, the concept's polymorphous nature and lack of specificity and clarity significantly hamper systematic understanding, successful application and meaningful evaluation. This article explores the many definitions, concepts, logics and methods found in health system and service integration. In addition to framing this evolving, albeit imprecise field, the article summarizes the main elements or building blocks of integrated care and suggests a way to address its various complexities and unknowns in a real-world sense.

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  • Common barriers such as absence of healthcare policies and supporting strategies, inadequate interdisciplinary training and workload increase seem to depend on both contextual and individual factors rather than discipline itself.

    “Common barriers such as the absence of healthcare policies and supporting strategies, inadequate interdisciplinary training and workload increase seem to depend on both contextual and individual factors rather than the discipline itself.”

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    The Introduction (page unavailable) locates obstacles to integrated care in policy, organization, service delivery, and professional culture; Key Conclusions also identifies organizational culture as a barrier. The paper lists joint training as an integration strategy, but does not identify inadequate interdisciplinary training or increased workload as common barriers, or conclude that barriers depend on contextual and individual factors rather than discipline. (LLM, conf=0.81)

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  • The results of the present scoping review are in line with publications on the challenges faced in implementation of integrated care.

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Authors
Kodner, D.
Affiliations
American Medical Association (US)
Corresponding author
Kodner, Dennis
Venue
Healthcare Quarterly
Published
2009-10-16
Volume
13
Issue
sp
Pages
6-15
ISSN
  • 1710-2774 (ISSN-L)
  • 1929-6347
OpenAlex
W2138401727
Cited by
434
References
40
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Healthcare Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Services Management and Policy
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Healthcare Quality and Management
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare Systems and Practices
Keywords
integrated care, health care reform, service integration, conceptual definitions, health system integration, care coordination
MeSH terms
Canada, Continuity of Patient Care, Decision Support Techniques, Humans, Managed Care Programs, Models, Theoretical, Operations Research, Philosophy, Medical, United States, Models, Organizational, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Health Care Reform, Systems Integration, Delivery of Health Care, Integrated, Case Management, Critical Pathways, Disease Management

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