Shifting care from hospital to community, a strategy to integrate care in Singapore: process evaluation of implementation fidelity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accessibility to efficient and person-centered healthcare delivery drives healthcare transformation in many countries. In Singapore, specialist outpatient clinics (SOCs) are commonly congested due to increasing demands for chronic care. To improve this situation, the National University Health System (NUHS) Regional Health System (RHS) started an integrated care initiative,the Right-Site Care (RSC) program in 2014. Through collaborations between SOCs at the National University Hospital and primary and community care (PCC) clinics in the western region of the county, the program was designed to facilitate timely discharge and appropriate transition of patients, who no longer required specialist care, to the community. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementati

SUBMITTER: Nurjono M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7245814 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature