1. Integrated systems and continuity in health care: a navigation through the concepts and models.
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Di Stanislao, Francesco, Visca, Modesta, Caracci, Giovanni, and Moirano, Fulvio
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COMMUNITY health services ,CONCEPTS ,CONTINUUM of care ,DECISION making ,HEALTH planning ,INFORMATION services ,INTEGRATED health care delivery ,MEDICAL protocols ,ORGANIZATIONAL effectiveness ,QUALITY assurance ,KNOWLEDGE management ,ORGANIZATIONAL structure ,INSTITUTIONAL cooperation ,PATIENT-centered care - Abstract
This paper aims to share with readers some points on the matter of integration/continuity that we have reached thanks to our professional experience in health-care planning and organization. These points have been confirmed by our experience in the field and by cross-fertilization with other branches of knowledge (sociology, epistemology, management science, education theory, etc.). They represent a difficult process of de-structuring of knowledge, but at the same time opened a path to research, discovery and learning that deeply influenced our way of understanding institutional organizations and has conditioned our operational choices and decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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