Measures for the integration of health and social care services for long-term health conditions: a systematic review of reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As people are living longer with higher incidences of long-term health conditions, there is a move towards greater integration of care, including integration of health and social care services. Integrated care needs to be comprehensively and systematically evaluated if it is to be implemented widely. We performed a systematic review of reviews to identify measures which have been used to assess integrated care across health and social care services for people living with long-term health conditions.

Methods

Four electronic databases (PUBMED; MEDLINE; EMBASE; Cochrane library of systematic reviews) were searched in August 2018 for relevant reviews evaluating the integration of health and social care between 1998 and 2018. Articles were assessed according to apriori

SUBMITTER: Kelly L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7183623 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature