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Integrated care approaches used for transitions from hospital to community care
— a scoping review | | Author(s) | Cara L Brown, Verena Menec |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 37, no 2, June 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, June 2018 |
| Pages | pp 145-170 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Discharge [hospitals] ; Aftercare ; Community care ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Coordination ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Integrated care is a promising approach for improving care transitions for older adults but this concept is inconsistently defined and applied. This scoping review described the size and nature of literature on integrated care initiatives for transitions from hospital to community care for older adults (aged 65 and older) and how this literature conceptualised integrated care. A systematic search of literature from the past 10 years yielded 899 documents that were screened for inclusion by two reviewers. Of the 48 included documents, there were 26 journal articles and 22 grey literature documents. Analysis included descriptive statistics and a content analysis approach to summarise features of the integrated care initiatives. Results suggested that clinical and service delivery integration is being targeted rather than integration of funding, administration and/or organisation. To promote international comparison of integrated care initiatives aiming to improve care transitions detailed descriptions of organisational context are also needed. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180525242 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKJ: LN: PA: QK6: QAJ: 64A |
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