A systematic review of the care coordination measurement landscape.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Care coordination has increasingly been recognized as an important aspect of high-quality health care delivery. Robust measures of coordination processes will be essential tools to evaluate, guide and support efforts to understand and improve coordination, yet little agreement exists among stakeholders about how to best measure care coordination. We aimed to review and characterize existing measures of care coordination processes and identify areas of high and low density to guide future measure development.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of measures published in MEDLINE through April 2012 and identified from additional key sources and informants. We characterized included measures with respect to the aspects of coordination measured (domain), measuremen

SUBMITTER: Schultz EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3651252 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature