Summary of papers included in the study
| Author | Year | Journal | Study design | Paper title | Population | Intervention/control | Principle outcome measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borgermans and Devroey (2017) | 2017 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Policy guide based on EU project INTEGRATE | A Policy Guide on Integrated Care (PGIC): Lessons Learned from EU Project INTEGRATE and Beyond | Nine European countries (not specified) | Integrated Care Model | Policy for integrated care should be built on three building blocks – a mission, vision and strategy |
| Busetto (2016) | 2016 | International Journal of Integrated Care | PhD thesis summary – abstract | Great Expectations: The Implementation of Integrated Care and Its contribution to Improved Outcomes for People with Chronic Conditions | International | Does not apply | COMIC Model for integrated care |
| Busetto et al. (2018) | 2018 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Expert questionnaires, systematic literature review, secondary analysis of two reports | Barriers and Facilitators to workforce Changes in Integrated Care | European countries (not specified) | Integrated Care Model | Factors that mitigate the success integrated care as an intervention |
| Dudley and Garner (2011) | 2011 | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | Review | Strategies for integrating primary health services in low-and middle-income countries at the point of delivery | Various low/middle-income countries (e.g. Togo, Zambia and India, South Africa, Tanzania, Nepal, Zimbabwe) | Does not apply | Does not apply |
| Ferrer and Goodwin (2014) | 2014 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Editorial | What are the principles that underpin integrated care? | International | Does not apply | Suggested core principles for guiding people-centred and integrated |
| Goodwin (2016) | 2016 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Perspective paper | Understanding Integrated Care | International | Does not apply | |
| Gullery and Hamilton (2015) | 2015 | Future Hospital Journal | Model paper | Towards integrated person-centred healthcare – the canterbury journey | New Zealand | Integrated Care Model | Measurable impacts of the integrated care model – acute admission reduction, reduced length of stay, reduction in aged residential care |
| Ivbijaro et al. (2015) | 2015 | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal | Review | Informing mental health policies and services in the EMR: cost-effective deployment of human resources to deliver integrated community-based care | Does not apply | Outlines key approaches to achieve integrated care and discusses important actors that need to be in place to support good integrated care | |
| McGeoch et al. (2019) | 2019 | Primary Health Care Research and Development | Cross-sectional intervention | Hospital avoidance: an integrated community system to reduced acute hospital demand | New Zealand | Community-based acute care | Lower attendance at EDs, lower acute medical admission rates, shorter hospital stays |
| McGonigle and McGeoch (2017) | 2017 | Conference Abstract, 17th International Conference on Integrated Care | Intervention | The canterbury pathways to integrated care, warts and all | New Zealand | Multiple integrated care system changes – HealthPathways | Lessons learnt |
| Nicholson et al. (2013) | 2013 | BMC Health Services Research | Systematic review | A governance model for integrated primary/secondary care for health-reforming first world – results of a systematic review | International | Does not apply | All successful examples of primary/secondary care integration have a combination of the ten elements described in the paper |
| Rahman (2015) | 2015 | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal | Case study | Integration of Mental Health Into Priority Health Service Delivery Platforms: Maternal and Child Health Service | International | Outlines key steps for integrating maternal and child mental health into maternal and child health services | Highlights the case for the integration of maternal and child mental health intervention into mainstream services. Potential to improve both mental and physical health synergistically |
| Ramagem et al. (2011) | 2011 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Literature review, expert meetings and country consultations | Combating health care fragmentation through integrated health services delivery networks | Region of the Americas | Pan American health Organisation (PAHO) launch of Integrated Health Services Delivery networks (IHSDN) | IHSDN could improve health systems performance |
| Reynolds and Sutherland (2013) | 2013 | BMC Health Services Research | Correspondence | A systematic approach to the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of integrated health services | International | Does not apply | Description of an ideal approach for the integration of health services |
| Røsstad et al. (2013) | 2013 | BMC Health Services Research | Qualitative study: Focus groups, written material and observations | Development of a patient-centred care pathway across healthcare providers: a Qualitative study | Norway | Integrated care pathway or usual control | Disease-based care pathways for older patients in primary care are neither feasible nor sustainable. A common patient-centred pathway was recommended |
| Grimsmo (2010) | 2010 | Cochrane Central Register of controlled Trials | Interventional (clinical trial). Cluster randomised study | Integrated Care Pathways in a Community Setting | International | Integrated care pathway or usual control | 3 results papers listed above |
| Storeng and Béhague (2016) | 2016 | Health Policy and Planning | Ethnographic research article | “Lives in the balance”: The politics of integration in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health | International | Global maternal, newborn and child health initiative | Outlines fragmentations and challenges faced in integration |
| Timmins and Ham (2013) | 2013 | Case study | Case study | The quest for integrated health and social care: A case study in canterbury, New Zealand | New Zealand | Regional integrated care initiative | Patient health and service utilisation rates (e.g. admissions, referrals) |
| Valentijn et al. (2013) | 2013 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Narrative literature review, group meetings and expert panels | Understanding Integrated Care: A Comprehensive Conceptual Framework Based on the Integrative Functions of Primary Care | International | Does not apply | Conceptual framework |
| Vázquez et al. (2012) | 2012 | Gaceta Sanitaria | Report | [Integrated Delivery Systems and Other examples of Collaboration Among Providers. SESPA S Report, 2012] | Spain (Basque region) | Analyse the experience of the healthcare providers within the integrated healthcare systems | Organisations are at different stages of development within the integrated pathways |
| Zonneveld et al. (2018) | 2018 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Systematic literature review | Values of Integrated Care: A Systematic Review | International | Does not apply | Identification of a set of 23 underlying values of integrated care |
| Author | Year | Journal | Study design | Paper title | Population | Intervention/control | Principle outcome measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Policy guide based on EU project INTEGRATE | A Policy Guide on Integrated Care (PGIC): Lessons Learned from EU Project INTEGRATE and Beyond | Nine European countries (not specified) | Integrated Care Model | Policy for integrated care should be built on three building blocks – a mission, vision and strategy | |
| 2016 | International Journal of Integrated Care | PhD thesis summary – abstract | Great Expectations: The Implementation of Integrated Care and Its contribution to Improved Outcomes for People with Chronic Conditions | International | Does not apply | COMIC Model for integrated care | |
| 2018 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Expert questionnaires, systematic literature review, secondary analysis of two reports | Barriers and Facilitators to workforce Changes in Integrated Care | European countries (not specified) | Integrated Care Model | Factors that mitigate the success integrated care as an intervention | |
| 2011 | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | Review | Strategies for integrating primary health services in low-and middle-income countries at the point of delivery | Various low/middle-income countries (e.g. Togo, Zambia and India, South Africa, Tanzania, Nepal, Zimbabwe) | Does not apply | Does not apply | |
| 2014 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Editorial | What are the principles that underpin integrated care? | International | Does not apply | Suggested core principles for guiding people-centred and integrated | |
| 2016 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Perspective paper | Understanding Integrated Care | International | Does not apply | ||
| 2015 | Future Hospital Journal | Model paper | Towards integrated person-centred healthcare – the canterbury journey | New Zealand | Integrated Care Model | Measurable impacts of the integrated care model – acute admission reduction, reduced length of stay, reduction in aged residential care | |
| 2015 | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal | Review | Informing mental health policies and services in the EMR: cost-effective deployment of human resources to deliver integrated community-based care | Does not apply | Outlines key approaches to achieve integrated care and discusses important actors that need to be in place to support good integrated care | ||
| 2019 | Primary Health Care Research and Development | Cross-sectional intervention | Hospital avoidance: an integrated community system to reduced acute hospital demand | New Zealand | Community-based acute care | Lower attendance at EDs, lower acute medical admission rates, shorter hospital stays | |
| 2017 | Conference Abstract, 17th International Conference on Integrated Care | Intervention | The canterbury pathways to integrated care, warts and all | New Zealand | Multiple integrated care system changes – HealthPathways | Lessons learnt | |
| 2013 | BMC Health Services Research | Systematic review | A governance model for integrated primary/secondary care for health-reforming first world – results of a systematic review | International | Does not apply | All successful examples of primary/secondary care integration have a combination of the ten elements described in the paper | |
| 2015 | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal | Case study | Integration of Mental Health Into Priority Health Service Delivery Platforms: Maternal and Child Health Service | International | Outlines key steps for integrating maternal and child mental health into maternal and child health services | Highlights the case for the integration of maternal and child mental health intervention into mainstream services. Potential to improve both mental and physical health synergistically | |
| 2011 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Literature review, expert meetings and country consultations | Combating health care fragmentation through integrated health services delivery networks | Region of the Americas | Pan American health Organisation (PAHO) launch of Integrated Health Services Delivery networks (IHSDN) | IHSDN could improve health systems performance | |
| 2013 | BMC Health Services Research | Correspondence | A systematic approach to the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of integrated health services | International | Does not apply | Description of an ideal approach for the integration of health services | |
| 2013 | BMC Health Services Research | Qualitative study: Focus groups, written material and observations | Development of a patient-centred care pathway across healthcare providers: a Qualitative study | Norway | Integrated care pathway or usual control | Disease-based care pathways for older patients in primary care are neither feasible nor sustainable. A common patient-centred pathway was recommended | |
| 2010 | Cochrane Central Register of controlled Trials | Interventional (clinical trial). Cluster randomised study | Integrated Care Pathways in a Community Setting | International | Integrated care pathway or usual control | 3 results papers listed above | |
| 2016 | Health Policy and Planning | Ethnographic research article | “Lives in the balance”: The politics of integration in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health | International | Global maternal, newborn and child health initiative | Outlines fragmentations and challenges faced in integration | |
| 2013 | Case study | Case study | The quest for integrated health and social care: A case study in canterbury, New Zealand | New Zealand | Regional integrated care initiative | Patient health and service utilisation rates (e.g. admissions, referrals) | |
| 2013 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Narrative literature review, group meetings and expert panels | Understanding Integrated Care: A Comprehensive Conceptual Framework Based on the Integrative Functions of Primary Care | International | Does not apply | Conceptual framework | |
| 2012 | Gaceta Sanitaria | Report | [Integrated Delivery Systems and Other examples of Collaboration Among Providers. SESPA S Report, 2012] | Spain (Basque region) | Analyse the experience of the healthcare providers within the integrated healthcare systems | Organisations are at different stages of development within the integrated pathways | |
| 2018 | International Journal of Integrated Care | Systematic literature review | Values of Integrated Care: A Systematic Review | International | Does not apply | Identification of a set of 23 underlying values of integrated care |
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