"Compared with ‘usual care’, schemes that integrated funds and resources to support integrated care seldom led to improved health outcomes. Although some schemes succeeded in shifting care closer to home, and some achieved short term reductions in acute care utilisation, no scheme demonstrated a sustained and long term reduction in hospital use."
Financial mechanisms for integrating funds for health and social care: an evidence review
A Mason, M Goddard, H Weatherly
Centre for Health Economics, University of York
March 2014
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