Background:Despite far reaching support for integrated care, conceptualizing and measuring integrated care remains challenging. This knowledge synthesis aimed to identify indicator domains and tools to measure progress towards integrated care.Methods:We used an established framework and a Delphi survey with integration experts to identify relevant measurement domains. For each domain, we searched and reviewed the literature for relevant tools.Findings:From 7,133 abstracts, we retrieved 114 unique tools. We found many quality tools to measure care coordination, patient engagement and team effectiveness/performance. In contrast, there were few tools in the domains of performance measurement and information systems, alignment of organizational goals and resource allocation. The search yielded 12 tools that measure overall integration or three or more indicator domains.Discussion:Our findings highlight a continued gap in tools to measure foundational components that support integrated care. In the absence of such targeted tools, “overall integration” tools may be useful for a broad assessment of the overall state of a system.Conclusions:Continued progress towards integrated care depends on our ability to evaluate the success of strategies across different levels and context. This study has identified 114 tools that measure integrated care across 16 domains, supporting efforts towards a unified measurement framework.
RESUMO:Este artigo teve como objetivo analisar a organização do trabalho da equipe de saúde de uma unidade hospitalar de atendimento a usuários em situações de urgência e emergência do interior do Rio Grande do Sul. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, do tipo estudo de caso. Os dados foram coletados por meio de observação e entrevista semi-estruturada com profissionais da equipe de saúde entre junho e setembro de 2007. A análise dos dados seguiu diretrizes do método qualitativo: ordenação, classificação em estruturas de relevância, síntese, interpretação. Constatou-se que o trabalho da equipe divide-se entre atendimento aos casos com potencial risco à vida, assistência aos pacientes na sala de observação e atenção aos usuários com demandas não urgentes. Assim, os profissionais sobrecarregam-se e os pacientes nem sempre têm suas necessidades atendidas adequadamente. O estudo oferece subsídios para reorganização dos processos de trabalho visando à qualidade e resolutividade do atendimento às urgências. DESCRITORES:Emergências. Serviços médicos de emergência. Equipe de assistência ao paciente. Organização e administração. WORK ORGANIZATION OF A HEALTH TEAM IN ATTENDING THE USER IN URGENCY AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONSABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is to analyze the organization of a health team while rendering services in urgency and emergency situations in a hospital unit in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was a qualitative case study. The data was collected through observation and semi-structured interviews with health professionals between June and September of 2007. The data analysis followed a qualitative approach: ordering, classification by relevance, synthesis, and interpretation. Teamwork is divided into death-risk cases, assistance to patients under observation, and attention to users with non-emergency cases. Thus, professionals are overloaded and patients quite often are not rendered the right service. The study offers support for reorganizing work processes, aiming to improve the quality and effectiveness of emergency service. DESCRIPTORS:Emergencies. Emergency medical services. Patient care team. Organization and administration. LA ORGANIZACIÓN DEL TRABAJO DE UN EQUIPO DE SALUD EN LA ATENCIÓN AL USUARIO EN SITUACIONES DE URGENCIA Y EMERGENCIA RESUMEN:Este trabajo tuvo como objetivo analizar la organización del trabajo de un equipo de salud de una unidad de urgencia y emergencia ubicada en Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil). Se trata de un estudio cualitativo de tipo estudio de caso. La recolección de los datos se hizo por medio de observación y entrevista semiestructurada con profesionales del equipo entre junio y septiembre del 2007. Se realizó un análisis de los datos según las directrices del método cualitativo: ordenación, clasificación por relevancia, síntesis e interpretación. El trabajo del equipo se divide entre la atención a los casos que presentan riesgo de vida, la asistencia a los pacientes en observación y la atención a los usuarios con demandas no urgentes. Así, los profesionales se ...
OBJECTIVE To identify and analyze available literature on care transition strategies in Latin American countries. METHODS Integrative literature review that included studies indexed in PubMed, LILACS, Web of Science Core Collection, CINAHL, SCOPUS databases, and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), published in Portuguese, Spanish or English, between 2010 and 2017. RESULTS Eleven articles were selected and the strategies were grouped into components of care transition: discharge planning, advanced care planning, patient education and promotion of self-management, medication safety, complete communication of information, and outpatient follow-up. These strategies were carried out by multidisciplinary team members, in which nurses play a leading role in promoting safe care transitions. CONCLUSIONS Care transition activities are generally initiated very close to patient discharge, this differs from recommendations of care transition programs and models, which suggest implementing care transition strategies from the time of admission until discharge.
Results are beneficial for nurses, managers and policy makers for evaluating care transitions and support the need for changes in policies and practices.
Relata-se a experiência realizada no Serviço de Atendimento Móvel de Urgência Samu 192, da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Porto Alegre - RS, quanto ao trabalho desenvolvido pelo Núcleo de Educação Permanente em Urgências. Consta das principais necessidades e dos principais avanços encontrados no desenvolvimento das atividades, apresentando uma reflexão crítica do processo desenvolvido. Reconhece-se que implantar e manter processos de Educação Permanente em Urgências junto aos Samu é de fundamental relevância para a qualificação dos serviços, entretanto, registram-se as dificuldades na sua execução, especialmente devidas à forma da organização do trabalho no componente pré-hospitalar móvel. Conclui-se que investir na educação incorporada à rotina de trabalho como um processo efetivo, contínuo e ajustado às necessidades do cotidiano e da evolução da estratégia constitui prioridade de gestão e de avaliação de sua qualidade.
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