Implementation of integrated care for diabetes mellitus type 2 by two Dutch care groups: a case study

Conclusions:
Dutch integrated diabetes care is still a work in progress, in the academic and the practice setting. This makes it difficult to establish whether overall quality of care has improved. Future efforts should focus on areas that this study found to be problematic or to not have received enough attention yet. Increased efforts are needed to improve the interoperability of the patient databases and to keep the negative consequences of the bundled payment system in check. Moreover, patient and community involvement should be incorporated.

Source: BMC Family Practice - August 21, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Loraine BusettoKatrien LuijkxAnna HuizingBert Vrijhoef Source Type: research