Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
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Sunday, November 22, 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...

Consequences of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS in China: recommendations for integrated care of HIV-infected drug users.

29 Sep 2009 Drug abuse is a complicated social phenomenon rather than a neural disease. It especially fuels the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Researchers have shown interest in HIV-infected drug users as the socially and medically marginalized population, but they did not ... Read more...

Enhancing multiyear guideline concordance for bipolar disorder through collaborative care.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Implementation of evidence-based care for serious mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder has been suboptimal. Improving and sustaining concordance with clinical practice guidelines has been a cornerstone of efforts to enhance ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Delivery of Health Care, Integrated'

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
• Consequences of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS in China: recommendations for integrated care of HIV-infected drug users. 29 Sep 2009
• Enhancing multiyear guideline concordance for bipolar disorder through collaborative care. 29 Sep 2009
• Legally speaking: Federal Trade Commission issues positive advisory opinions on antitrust implications of clinical integration. 29 Sep 2009
• 21st-century health care--the case for integrated delivery systems. 21 Sep 2009
• Our public health system: an accident waiting to happen? 19 Sep 2009
• Health care delivery system reform: accountable care organizations. 6 Sep 2009
• [Cooperation among clinics and practices. Integrated medical care in occupational dermatology] 30 Aug 2009
• Toward a meaningful alternative medicine. 30 Aug 2009
• Making rhetoric a reality: effective capacity building in mental health care provision. 30 Aug 2009
• A science of connectedness. 30 Aug 2009
• Twelve lords a-leaping. 30 Aug 2009
• The case for integrating oral health into primary health care. 19 Aug 2009
• Data based integration of critical illness and injury patient care from EMS to emergency department to intensive care unit. 30 Jul 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
• Post-acute polytrauma rehabilitation and integrated care of returning veterans: toward a holistic approach. 30 Jul 2009
• [Implementing a management plan for type 2 diabetic patients: beneficial and hindrance factors] 30 Jul 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