Their organizational design aims to ensure effective communication, coordination, and integration across the total network.
Instruments trying to capture the experience of care have looked at various attributes: access and organization of care, continuity and longitudinality, comprehensiveness, patient-centeredness and community orientation, interpersonal communication and behaviour, cultural sensitivity and discrimination, coordination and integration, empowerment and enablement, courtesy and trust.
Options to provide this end-of-life care vary from the coordination and integration of existing community resources including family physicians to specialized palliative care program home support teams providing all the necessary visits.
We consider the implications of the current practice of pharmacy employed nurses for issues of access, quality of care, and the coordination and integration of post-birth care in the community.
Placing the social worker as the interface of social protection of the families and communities can serve as a highly effective instrument for facilitating institutional coordination and integration.
Moreover, the fact that different components of community mental health care are funded by different payers (and on different legal bases) hampers coordination and integration of services.
The coordination and integration between primary and tertiary hospitals has important implications for integrated health care delivery systems.
Their curricular model is more integrated than ours, which allows for better longitudinal coordination and integration at a higher level.
In Europe adaptation efforts are guided by the adaptation framework (Commission of the European Communities 2009) developed by the European Union (EU), which aims to establish a European adaptation strategy and to encourage greater coordination and integration of adaptation across its member states.
Manage partnerships for better coordination: Developing countries are faced with an array of global health partnerships, but to improve coordination and integration those partnerships need strengthening.
