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A Comprehensive Theory of Integration

Published:2018-04-02 Issue:2 Volume:77 Page:196-207
ISSN:1077-5587
Container-title:Medical Care Research and Review
language:en
Short-container-title:Med Care Res Rev

Author:

Singer Sara J.¹^ORCID,Kerrissey Michaela²,Friedberg Mark³,Phillips Russell⁴

Affiliation:

1. Stanford University School of Medicine and Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, USA

2. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

3. RAND Corporation, Boston, MA, USA

4. Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, Boston, MA, USA

Abstract

Efforts to transform health care delivery to improve care have increasingly focused on care integration. However, variation in how integration is defined has complicated efforts to design, synthesize, and compare studies of integration in health care. Evaluations of integration initiatives would be enhanced by describing them according to clear definitions of integration and specifying which empirical relationships they seek to test—whether among types of integration or between integration and outcomes of care. Drawing on previous work, we present a comprehensive theoretical model of relationships between types of integration and propose how to measure them.

Funder

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Commonwealth Fund

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Health Policy

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1077558718767000

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