Barriers to the Integration of Care in Inter-Organisational Settings: A Literature Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In recent years, inter-organisational collaboration between healthcare organisations has become of increasingly vital importance in order to improve the integration of health service delivery. However, different barriers reported in academic literature seem to hinder the formation and development of such collaboration.

Theory and methods

This systematic literature review of forty studies summarises and categorises the barriers to integrated care in inter-organisational settings as reported in previous studies. It analyses how these barriers operate.

Results

Within these studies, twenty types of barriers have been identified and then categorised in six groups (barriers related to administration and regulation, barriers related to funding, barriers related

SUBMITTER: Auschra C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5887071 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature