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Determinants of integrated health care development: chains of care in Sweden

✍ Scribed by Bengt Ahgren; Runo Axelsson

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
152 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
0749-6753

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Abstract

Local health care in Sweden is an emerging form of integrated care, linked together by chains of care. Experiences show, however, that the development of chains of care is making slow progress. In order to study the factors behind this development, an embedded multiple‐case study design was chosen. The study compared six health authorities in Sweden, three with successful and three with unsuccessful chain of care development.

Three major determinants of integrated health care development were identified: professional dedication, legitimacy and confidence. In more detail, space for prime movers and trust between participants were crucial success factors, while top‐down approaches targeting at the same time a change of management systems were negative for the development of chains of care. Resistance from the body of physicians was a serious obstacle to such a development.

Local health care depends on developed chains of care, but it seems that health care managers do not have the management systems necessary to run these clinical networks, mainly due to a lack of acceptance from the medical profession. This is an impossible situation in the long run, since the number of chains of care is likely to increase as a result of the emerging local health care. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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