The increasing demand of Quality of Service (QoS) has lead in the last years to the definition of architectures that modify the best-effort Internet, though in a backward compatible way. The Integrated Services (IS) architecture, tightly coupled with the RSVP protocol, is first one that has been developed by IETF. Soon after its deployment some experimentation of IS networks raised a serious pr...

All the new emerging QoS service architectures are motivated by the desire to improve the overall performance of IP networks. Integrated Services (Intserv), Differentiated Services (Diffserv), MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) and constraint-based routing are all technologies starting to coexist together in today’s Internet to provide means for the delivery of end-to-end QoS to applications ...

A growing population of people living with HIV/AIDS have co-morbid psychiatric and substance abuse diagnoses, increasing the need for integrated services for persons with multiple diagnoses. This article reviews models of integrated services for multiply diagnosed persons living with HIV/AIDS. We focus on the HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence, Health Outcomes and Cost Study to highlight the elements...

OBJECTIVES To review the literature on the potential efficiency gains of integrating HIV services with other health services. DESIGN Systematic literature review. Search of electronic databases, manual searching and snowball sampling. Studies that presented results on cost, efficiency or cost-effectiveness of integrated HIV services were included, focusing on low- and middle-income countries....

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the extent of patient centrality within integrated chronic back pain management services and compare policy rhetoric with practice reality. CONTEXT Integrated chronic back pain management services. DATA SOURCES We have drawn on theories of integration and context specific journals related to integration and pain management between 1...