Coordinating community care

“Walking in a maze”: community providers’ difficulties coordinating health care for homeless patients

BACKGROUND While dual usage of US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA health services increases access to care and choice for veterans, it is also associated with a number of negative consequences including increased morbidity and mortality. Veterans with multiple health conditions, such as the homeless, may be particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of dual use. Homeless vet...

Coordinating care: a major (unreimbursed) task of primary care.

For several decades, first-contact care, continuity of care, comprehensive care, and coordinated care have been core attributes of primary care (1). Of these features, perhaps the most problem-ridden is the task of coordinating the care of patients among multiple entities beyond the primary care practice, that is, specialists, ancillary services, pharmacies, hospitals, and home care agencies. S...

Coordinating Care for Children with Chronic Conditions in Primary Care

Whole Child Care: Coordinating Support to Families.

Edward L. Schor, MD A decade before the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published its first policy statement on the medical home,1 Stein and Jessop began publishing their work on generic noncategorical dimensions and approaches to pediatric chronic illness. Their thesis was simply that children with various chronic conditions had needs more in common than different.2 The needs they shared ...

Coordinating health care: lessons from Norway

OBJECTIVE What influences the coordination of care between general practitioners and hospitals? In this paper, general practitioner satisfaction with hospital-GP interaction is revealed, and related to several background variables. METHOD A questionnaire was sent to all general practitioners in Norway (3388), asking their opinion on the interaction and coordination of health care in their dis...