Professionals in healthcare are increasingly encouraged to work together. This has acted as
a catalyst for research on interprofessional collaboration. Authors suggest developing …

Background. The concept of 'continuity of care'has changed over time and seems to be
entangled with other care concepts, for example coordination and integration of care. These …

Methods In the Canadian province of Ontario, government mandated the development of
fourteen Local Health Integration Networks in 2006. Against the backdrop of these efforts to …

This major new text on the theory and practice of public management moves away from
descriptive accounts of its evolution to provide a systematic treatment of the key paradigms …

Purpose–The purpose of the present paper is to discuss organisational problems that occur
in situations that are complex because the treatment of patients requires input from multiple …

Introduction This paper aims to support the implementation of patient-centered care for
people with multimorbidity in Europe, by providing insight into ways in which patient …

Purpose To examine the evolution of health care integration strategies and associated
conceptualization and practice through a review and synthesis of over 25 years of …

In attempting to reform public services, governments worldwide have sought to effect change
through policies aimed at both transforming structures of public-service provision and …

Objective The objective of this study is to identify the elements and clusters of a quality
management model for integrated care. Design In order to develop the model a combination …

Background Gaps are typically regarded as a problem to be solved. People are stimulated to
close or plug them. Researchers are moved to fill deficits in the literature in order to realise a …