Purpose: The objective of the study was to identify the elements and clusters of a quality management model for integrated care. An element was defined as an activity focusing on the development (realization, improvement, innovation or sustainability) of integrated care. Also the developmental process of integrated care was researched resulting in the description of four development phases of i...

INTRODUCTION Primary care has a central role in integrating care within a health system. However, conceptual ambiguity regarding integrated care hampers a systematic understanding. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that combines the concepts of primary care and integrated care, in order to understand the complexity of integrated care. METHODS The search method involved a combination ...

INTRODUCTION Integrated care has emerged as a new strategy to enhance the quality of care for hospitalised elderly. Current models do not provide insight into the mechanisms underlying integrated care delivery. Therefore, we developed a framework to identify the underlying mechanisms of integrated care delivery. We should understand how they operate and interact, so that integrated care program...

Integrated care has caught the attention of health professionals and decision-makers alike as one solution to the necessary reforms and the challenges arising from ageing societies, chronic diseases and resource restrictions. However, the outcomes of integrated care models have neither been properly evaluated and compared nor have the reasons for initiating such models. At both ends of the spec...

Purpose: The purpose of the workshop is to show the applications of the Development Model for Integrated Care (DMIC) in practice. This relatively new and validated model, can be used by integrated care practices to evaluate their integrated care, to assess their phase of development and reveal improvement areas. In the workshop the results of the use of the model in three types of integrated ca...