A comprehensive model of cooperation between caregivers related to quality of care.
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BACKGROUND The system and delivery of health care tend to suffer from fragmentation, resulting in discontinuous and costly care. Local cooperation between caregivers is essential to achieve appropriate, timely, continuous and efficient care. The article develops a general comprehensive patient-centered model of quality of care related to local cooperation between caregivers. The model can be used in quality improvement and research. THE PROPOSED MODEL Within the framework of Donabedian's triad (structure-->process-->outcome), cooperation between caregivers is divided into two parts. Firstly, client related cooperation (multiple caregivers to one patient) is a part of the process of health care and relevant for important quality aspects: appropriateness, timeliness, continuity of care, effectiveness and efficiency. Secondly, local cooperation between caregivers, which is not restricted to one patient, is called non client related cooperation. Such non client related cooperation creates conditions for optimal patient care. Non client related cooperation has different degrees, dependent on the existence of agreements between the caregivers (such as protocols) and evaluation of these agreements. The highest degree of non client related cooperation is continuous quality improvement. To achieve a certain degree of non client related cooperation, conditions must be fulfilled in several fields (organization, information, financing and participants). APPLICATION OF THE MODEL A "how to use the model in eight steps" is given and possible operationalizations of key concepts in the model are outlined. Finally, the use of the model is illustrated by two examples.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care
دوره 9 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997