Delivery of Health Care, Integrated - Organization & administration
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Montérégie Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre: integrating nurse navigators in Montérégie's oncology teams: one aspect of implementing the Cancer Control Program--Part 1]

29 Nov 2009 The oncology patient navigator role was developed to ensure both continuity and consultation in the delivery of care to cancer patients and their families. In Québec, this role is filled by a nurse. This first article in a series of two, aims to ... Read more...

Our public health system: an accident waiting to happen?

19 Sep 2009 Our public health system, addicted to increasing centralisation and regulation, is pushing our everyday work environment beyond the point of sustainability - it has become too complex. Like an ecosystem grown too complex to resist sudden ... Read more...

Health care delivery system reform: accountable care organizations.

6 Sep 2009 Health care reform is moving forward at a frantic pace. There have been 3 documents released from the Senate Finance Committee and proposed legislation from the Senate HELP Committee and the House of Representatives Tri-Committee on Health Reform. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Delivery of Health Care, Integrated - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Montérégie Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre: integrating nurse navigators in Montérégie's oncology teams: one aspect of implementing the Cancer Control Program--Part 1] 29 Nov 2009
• Our public health system: an accident waiting to happen? 19 Sep 2009
• Health care delivery system reform: accountable care organizations. 6 Sep 2009
• A science of connectedness. 30 Aug 2009
• The case for integrating oral health into primary health care. 19 Aug 2009
• Modeling physician practice change using the Integrated Systems Model. 30 Jul 2009
• [Integrated Center for Research and Treatment of Vertigo, Balance and Ocular Motor Disorders] 30 Jul 2009
• Practical organisation of preventive cardiology programmes: integrating prevention and rehabilitation. 30 Jul 2009
• Together ... yet separate. How your medical group can achieve integration with a hospital--without hospital employment. 30 Jul 2009
• [Implementing a management plan for type 2 diabetic patients: beneficial and hindrance factors] 30 Jul 2009
• [The relationship between German university hospitals and medical schools. Cooperation model versus integration model] 30 Jul 2009
• Software-assisted spine registered nurse care coordination and patient triage--one organization's approach. 30 Jul 2009
• Effect of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy on childhood mortality and nutrition in a rural area in Bangladesh: a cluster randomised trial. 30 Jul 2009
• Child survival and IMCI: in need of sustained global support. 30 Jul 2009
• Aligning physician and hospital incentives: the approach at hospital for special surgery. 12 Jul 2009
• Aligning incentives in orthopaedics: opportunities and challenges -- the Case Medical Center experience. 6 Jul 2009
• Quality: the Mayo Clinic approach. 5 Jul 2009
• Integrative medicine and health disparities: a scoping meeting. 29 Jun 2009
• Health professions education and integrative healthcare. 29 Jun 2009
• The efficiency of hospital-based clusters: evaluating system performance using data envelopment analysis. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Delivery of Health Care, Integrated'

Definition: A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (Coddington et al., Integrated Health Care: Reorganizing the Physician, Hospital and Health Plan Relationship, 1994, p7)

Descriptor UI: D019033

Alternative terms: Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; Integrated Delivery Systems; Delivery System, Integrated; Delivery Systems, Integrated; Integrated Delivery System; System, Integrated Delivery; Systems, Integrated Delivery; Integrated Health Care Systems;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.374.142; N05.300.262;

History Note: 96

Technical Notes: specify geog if pertinent