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01-03-2013 | Editorials

A Measure of Care Coordination?

Authors: Julie P. W. Bynum, MD, MPH, Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 3/2013

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Care coordination is a centerpiece of how we will improve healthcare among people with chronic illness. Yet what we mean by the phrase in clinical practice remains elusive despite many efforts to define care coordination. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) proposed a definition that captures the multidimensionality of “care coordination”:

“Care coordination is the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient’s care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services. Organizing care involves the marshaling of personnel and other resources needed to carry out all required patient care activities, and is often managed by the exchange of information among participants responsible for different aspects of care.”1

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Title: A Measure of Care Coordination?
Authors: Julie P. W. Bynum, MD, MPH
Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS
Publication date: 01-03-2013
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-012-2269-0

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