A Roadmap to Assess Patient Experience with Person-Centered Integrated Care: When, What and How?
2019
Person-centered integrated care (PC-IC) is a concept combining person-centeredness and integrated care to better improve care for people with complex health and social needs. The World Health Organization describes PC-IC as “health services that are managed and delivered in a […]
Lessons in Sustainability: The Re-Imagination of Integrated Care in Ontario, Canada.
2019
Faced with rising healthcare costs and systemic inefficiencies, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) selected six programs, each a collection of acute/ post-acute care organizations, to implement bundled care across the province of Ontario, Canada in 2015. A […]
Realist-Informed Rapid-Cycle Evaluations for Integrated Care Programs
2019
While integrated care programs are proliferating around the world, rigorous measurement and evaluation of the intended and unintended effects of these programs are rare outside of the context of specific research programs. There are a number of reasons for the […]
Person-Centered and Integrated Care: A Discussion of Concepts
2019
Recently, there has been a paradigm shift in healthcare that calls for positioning patients as active partners in healthcare rather than passive recipients. This active partnership is even more evident with patients who live with multiple chronic diseases because with […]
“She Was Just Lying in Bed for Three Days” the Experiences of Caregivers of Patients Who Are Stuck in Hospital
2019
Understanding Transitions of Care in Older Adults with Hip Fractures: A Qualitative Multiple-Case Study in Ontario
2019
Distributed Leadership Enactment in the Implementation of Inter-Organizational Networks
2019
Providing care for increasingly medically and socially complex populations is a well-recognized challenge that necessitates coordinating services across multiple sectors and organizations. There is a need to re-organize how care is delivered to align with coordination efforts, in the form […]
The Health Impact of Living in a Nursing Home With a Predominantly Different Spoken Language
2019
Hip and Knee Replacement Bundles: Qualitative Results
2019
The Incremental Health Care Costs of Frailty Among Home Care Recipients With and Without Dementia in Ontario, Canada
2019
Objective: In this study, we investigated the incremental 1-year direct costs of health care associated with frailty among home care recipients in Ontario with and without dementia. Methods: We conducted a cohort study of 159,570 home care clients aged 50 […]