Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 32 Issue 4

Nurses’ actions for Covid-19 patients' transitioning from hospital to home: a scoping review

Gabriela Marcellino de Melo Lanzoni, Caroline Cechinel-Peiter, Laísa Fischer Wachholz, Chantal Backman, Maria Fernanda Baeta Neves Alonso da Costa, José Luis Guedes dos Santos, Ana Lúcia Schaefer Ferreira de Mello

To map nurses’ actions performed during the care transitions from hospital to home of Covid-19 patients.

Coaching workshops for managing communication challenges perceived by emergency nurses in Morocco: a pilot experiment

Rabia Chahbounia, Abdellah Gantare

In emergency departments, effective communication is of utmost importance to ensure the safety of patients. However, communicating can be quite challenging when dealing with…

Quality of care transitions from hospital to home for COVID-19 patients discharged from Brazilian university hospitals

Laísa Fischer Wachholz, Caroline Cechinel-Peiter, Maria Fernanda Baeta Neves Alonso da Costa, Aline Marques Acosta, Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann, José Luis Guedes dos Santos, Chantal Backman, Gabriela Marcellino de Melo Lanzoni

To analyze the quality of transitional care for patients with COVID-19 at discharge from Brazilian university hospitals.

Cost-utility evaluation of a health and social care integration programme for frail older adults in Argentina

Gaston Perman, Mariana Prevettoni, Tami Guenzelovich, Marcelo Schapira, Javier Saimovici, María Victoria González, Roxana Ramos, Leonardo Garfi, Lucila Hornstein, Cristian Gallo Acosta, María Florencia Cunha Ferré, Silvana Scozzafava, Carlos Vassallo Sella

Our objective was to evaluate the cost-utility of a health and social care integration programme for frail older adults in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Archetypes of integrated care

Marissa Bird, James Shaw, Christopher D. Brinton, Vanessa Wright, Carolyn Steele Gray

A synthesis of integrated care models classified by their aims and central characteristics does not yet exist. We present a collection of five “archetypes” of integrated care…

Learning integrated care from the Dutch

Sandra Bartolomeu Pires, Mari Carmen Portillo, Wilco Achterberg

This article aims to gather lessons from a research interchange between England and The Netherlands, reflecting on the countries’ delivery of integrated care across adult and…

Integrating health and child protection systems: towards collaboratively improving health outcomes for children in kinship care in rural Australia

Corina Modderman, Rachael Elizabeth Sanders, Fiona Harley, Renée Ficarra, Cheree Jukes

There is a growing recognition that the integration of health systems will benefit children in out-of-home care (OOHC), especially those who have experienced trauma. This paper…

Navigating patient journeys across healthcare borders: hot potatoes, medical professionalism and a negotiated order

Maciej Rys, Pawel Krzyworzeka, Anna Żukowicka-Surma

This study explores the dynamics of patient transfers within the Polish healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the roles of negotiation, boundary work and…

Integrating social work into general practice in Australia: protocol of an intervention study

Ines Zuchowski, Albert Kuruvila, Rebecca Lee, Simoane McLennan

This study protocol provides an overview of research aimed to evidence social work contributions to general practitioner (GP) clinics and evaluating the value of social workers…