The critical importance of going beyond administrative data for health systems planning and integration
Conclusion: The exclusive use of administrative data would have lead our healthcare system down a misleading path of allocating resources to better management and integration of chronic diseases between primary, acute and specialty care. Instead, by adding social variables as well as patient/provider narratives to our planning, a completely different emphasis resulted: strengthening primary care and enhancing social supports in the community. Published on 2018-10-23 00:00:00
Source: International Journal of Integrated Care - Category: Nursing Source Type: research
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