New care models explained: How the NHS can successfully integrate care

"Multispecialty community providers (or MCPs) and the primary and acute care services (or PACS) are new types of delivery models, integrating hitherto relatively poorly coordinated care providers into new and efficient organisations or alliances capable of delivering on the “triple aim” – a better patient experience, better population health and more efficient use of resources."

New care models explained: How the NHS can successfully integrate care
R Lewis
Health Service Journal
March 2015

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Manifestations and implications of uncertainty for improving healthcare systems

"Our analyses have implications for efforts to improve healthcare system performance and patient outcomes. Understanding differences in the ways that uncertainty is manifest in different clinical scenarios will lead to an improved understanding of the types of improvement efforts that will be most likely to be effective."

Manifestations and implications of uncertainty for improving healthcare systems: an analysis of observational and interventional studies grounded in complexity science
LK Leykum et al.
Implementation Science 2014, 9:165  doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0165-1

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Factors associated with patient experiences of coronary heart disease

Primary care for chronic illness varies across European healthcare systems.

Identifying factors associated with experiences of coronary heart disease patients receiving structured chronic care and counselling in European primary care
S Ludt, J van Lieshout, SM Campbell, J Rochon, D Ose, T Freund, M Wensing, J Szecsenyi
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:221

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Developing and validating disease management evaluation methods for European healthcare systems

"We reviewed the policy context for, and approaches to, chronic disease management in 13 European countries."

DISMEVAL: Developing and validating disease management evaluation methods for European healthcare systems: final report
E Nolte, S Hinrichs
RAND Europe
April 2012

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