Open AccessGreat Expectations: The Implementation of Integrated Care and Its Contribution to Improved Outcomes for People with Chronic Conditions
Author(s) -
Loraine Busetto
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of integrated care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 32
ISSN - 1568-4156
DOI - 10.5334/ijic.2555
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , context (archaeology) , work (physics) , psychology , comics , class (philosophy) , integrated care , nursing , medicine , health care , computer science , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , paleontology , law , biology , artificial intelligence
There are great expectations regarding the potential contribution of integrated care interventions to improved outcomes, but so far the evidence is mixed. In this dissertation, we focussed on why, when and how some integrated care interventions contribute to improved outcomes, while others do not. To this purpose, we developed the COMIC Model for studying the C ontext, O utcomes and M echanisms of I ntegrated C are interventions. Evaluations that make use of the COMIC Model take into account the context in which an intervention is implemented and can thereby provide insights into why an intervention does (not) work and how the intervention and/or the context can be changed to achieve improved outcomes.