Effectiveness of quality improvement strategies for coordination of care to reduce use of health care services: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Tricco AC, Antony J, Ivers NM, Ashoor HM, Khan PA, Blondal E, Ghassemi M, MacDonald H, Chen MH, Ezer LK, Straus SE. Effectiveness of quality improvement strategies for coordination of care to reduce use of health care services: a systematic review and meta-analysis. CMAJ. 2014 Oct 21;186(15):E568-78. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.140289.
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Funder: Building Bridges to Integrate Care (BRIDGES) Initiative, through the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
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[ssba-buttons] [/sidebar] [sidebar-content]- Our results may help clinicians and policy-makers reduce utilization through the use of strategies that target the system (team changes, case management) and the patient (promotion of self-management)
- Commissioned by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care BRIDGES Initiative to inform the development of an intervention for a clinical trial
- Informed policy for alternate levels of care patients by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care
- Featured in >30 mass media articles
- We found that quality improvement strategies for coordination of care reduced hospital admissions among patients with chronic conditions other than mental illness and reduced emergency department visits among older patients
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Date : 15 May 2020