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Transitional care or transition care also refers to the transition of young people with chronic conditions into adult-based services. Transition care is a Youth Health service. As children mature into young adults, they outgrow the expertise of children’s services (paediatrics) and need to find an adult health service that suits them.
Integrated care may be seen as a response to the fragmented delivery of health and social services being an acknowledged problem in many health systems. [1] [2] [3] This model of care is working towards moving away from a siloed and referral-based format of care to a team-based model.
Five factors that can be used to assess the advancement level of a particular IDN include provider alignment, continuum of care, regional presence, clinical integration, and reimbursement. [5] Between 2013 and 2017, healthcare providers created 11 new integrated delivery systems from joint ventures with insurance companies. [6]
The Donabedian model is a conceptual model that provides a framework for examining health services and evaluating quality of health care. [1] According to the model, information about quality of care can be drawn from three categories: "structure", "process", and "outcomes". [2] Structure describes the context in which care is delivered ...
A continuing care retirement community (CCRC), [1] [2] sometimes known as a life plan community, is a type of retirement community in the U.S. where a continuum of aging care needs—from independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care—can all be met within the community. [3]
The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...
Whole-person specialty care, a model where a comprehensive care team works together to coordinate personalized and individualized treatment, is offering renewed hope for patients.
The Care Continuum Alliance (formerly DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance [1]) is an industry trade group of corporations and individuals that "promotes the role of population health improvement in raising the quality of care, improving health outcomes and reducing preventable health care costs for individuals with chronic conditions and those at risk for developing chronic conditions". [2]