Table 2 Characteristics of participating integrated care services
From: A survey study to validate a four phases development model for integrated care in the Netherlands
Characteristic | Stroke n = 32 | AMI n = 9 | Dementia n = 43 |
|---|---|---|---|
Average start year (min – max) | 2001 (1996–2005) | 2003 (1998–2004) | 2007 (2000–2010) |
Average age in years (sd) | 7.75 ± 2.4 | 5.67 ± .2.0 | 2.72 ± 2.1 |
No. of patients in 2008 | 449 ± 340 | 1109 ± 515 | Nd |
(min – max) | (134 – 1914) | (519 – 2200) | |
Care providers involved (% of n): | |||
- hospitals | 100 | 100 | 91 |
- expertise centre | nd | nd | 47 |
- mental health care | 0 | 0 | 98 |
- rehabilitation centre | 88 | 0 | 0 |
- nursing and elderly homes | 100 | 11 | 100 |
- home care | 100 | 0 | 100 |
- welfare/social care | nd | 0 | 77 |
- client organisation | 38 | 0 | 98 |
- municipality | 13 | 0 | 72 |
Agreements available with: (% of n) | |||
- general practitioners | 72 | 89 | 56 |
- ambulances | 78 | 100 | 0 |
% with integrated care coordinator | 78 | 33 | 96 |
Average hours per week (min-max) | 5.5 (0–19) | 2.0 (1.5-2.4) | 15 (2–36) |
% with improvement teams at care chain level, consisting of | 91 | 78 | 91 |
- professionals | 3 | 100 | 13 |
- managers | 3 | 0 | 3 |
- mixed | 93 | 0 | 85 |
% with formal collaboration agreement between involved providers | 69 | 22 | 84 |
% with regular board meetings of involved providers | 78 | 67 | 95 |
% with periodically meetings with: | |||
- health insurers | 19 | 11 | 28 |
- care administration offices | 28 | 11 | 93 |
- care assessment organisations | 25 | 0 | 14 |