Sentence examples for clinical coordination from inspiring English sources

We thank Ms. Junko Watanabe (Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Japan) for clinical coordination and Ms. Miyuki Fukazawa (Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry) for the processing of blood samples.

Those which address more than one dimension of clinical coordination are not exhaustive in their approach to clinical coordination and are often insufficiently operative or are not directed at the assessment of clinical coordination across levels of care [ 21– 25].

52 indicators were identified addressing 11 attributes of clinical coordination across levels of care.

However, progress must be made in the design of instruments to measure the outputs of clinical coordination in order to be able to attribute improvements in the outcomes of health care to improvements in clinical coordination [ 51].

The lack of this type of measure of clinical coordination has been previously expressed in the literature [ 1, 54] and reflects the complexity of analyzing an activity which is not generally recorded but is considered central to clinical coordination.

Clinical coordination across levels of care should prevent wasteful duplication of diagnostic testing, perilous polypharmacy and conflicting care plans [ 5, 6]; thus the effects of clinical coordination extend beyond cost reduction through improving quality of care [ 7– 9].

However, its measurement is still challenging [ 1, 14, 15], since calculating the degree of clinical coordination in its multidimensional nature requires the availability of indicators that cover the different types and dimensions of clinical coordination.

Furthermore, the conceptual framework used to develop these measures is not generally explained in detail, so it is not obvious exactly which aspects of clinical coordination are being analysed or how measures relate to clinical coordination.

The applicability test illustrates the usefulness of these indicators in describing clinical management coordination, pointing to areas for improvement, such as the coordination of medical testing in Baix Empordà and communication with primary care after discharge in Ciutat Vella.

These trials also served to assess patient recruitment potential and to develop international clinical trial coordination experience.

Mechanisms for clinical management coordination are practically absent from the informants' discourse in the networks studied.