The association between care integration and care quality.

Micah B AaronMichaela KerrisseyZhanna NovikovMaike V TietschertAdam ScherlingHassina BahadurzadaRussell S PhillipsAnna D SinaikoSara J Singer

Published in: Health services research (2023)

The findings suggest social integration matters for improving the quality of care and that the relationship of integration to quality is not uniform for all patients. Policymakers and practitioners considering structural integrations of health systems should direct attention beyond structure to consider the potential for social integration to impact outcomes and how that might be achieved.

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