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Evidence Supporting Integrated Care

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Service delivery has developed in ways that have tended to fragment care both within and between sectors and a consequence, people typically receive care from many different providers, often in different settings or institutions. Failure to better coordinate services along the care continuum may result in suboptimal outcomes, such as potentially preventable hospitalisations, medication errors, and other adverse events. It is against this background that systems are exploring new approaches to health care delivery, promoting approaches that better integrate care and improve coordination between sectors and levels of care. This chapter provides an overview of available evidence supporting integrated care. It highlights that evidence of the impacts of integrated care as a whole is difficult to derive, given the complex nature of a concept that has been approached from different disciplinary and professional perspectives. Instead, it may be more instructive for decision-makers and practitioners to draw on evidence of impact of core elements and strategies that can help to achieve integrated care.

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  1. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Ellen Nolte

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  1. Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Volker Amelung

  2. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Viktoria Stein

  3. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Nicholas Goodwin

  4. Health Policy Research and Planning, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Ran Balicer

  5. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

    Ellen Nolte

  6. Workforce Research & Evaluation, Alberta Health Services Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Esther Suter

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Nolte, E. (2017). Evidence Supporting Integrated Care. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Goodwin, N., Balicer, R., Nolte, E., Suter, E. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56103-5_2

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