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All Together Now: A Conceptual Exploration of Integrated Care
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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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- Authors
- Kodner, D.
- Affiliations
- American Medical Association (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kodner, Dennis
- Venue
- Healthcare Quarterly
- Publisher
- Longwoods Publishing
- 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
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- FWCI
- 2.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Healthcare Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Services Management and Policy
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Healthcare Quality and Management
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › 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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