Indicators and Measurement Tools for Health Systems Integration: A Knowledge Synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite far reaching support for integrated care, conceptualizing and measuring integrated care remains challenging. This knowledge synthesis aimed to identify indicator domains and tools to measure progress towards integrated care.

Methods

We used an established framework and a Delphi survey with integration experts to identify relevant measurement domains. For each domain, we searched and reviewed the literature for relevant tools.

Findings

From 7,133 abstracts, we retrieved 114 unique tools. We found many quality tools to measure care coordination, patient engagement and team effectiveness/performance. In contrast, there were few tools in the domains of performance measurement and information systems, alignment of organizational goals and resource alloca

SUBMITTER: Suter E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5854167 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature