Care integration within and outside health system boundaries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Examine care integration-efforts to unify disparate parts of health care organizations to generate synergy across activities occurring within and between them-to understand whether and at which organizational level health systems impact care quality and staff experience.

Data sources

Surveys administered to one practice manager (56/59) and up to 26 staff (828/1360) in 59 practice sites within 24 physician organizations within 17 health systems in four states (2017-2019).

Study design

We developed manager and staff surveys to collect data on organizational, social, and clinical process integration, at four organizational levels: practice site, physician organization, health system, and outside health systems. We analyzed data using descriptive statistics and

SUBMITTER: Singer SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720712 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature