Further Learning: Cost-effective Health-Care Management
 By: Meg Sheehan, Health Innovations Group
With LHINs taking on responsibility for primary care in Ontario, and health-care organizations everywhere trying to determine how to manage care cost effectively in the community, here are a few articles that should provide some food for thought.
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Dusheiko, M., Gravelle, H., Martin, S., Rice, N., & Smith, P.C. (2012). Does better disease management in primary care reduce hospital costs? Evidence from English primary care. Journal of Health Economics 30: 919-932. Read the abstract online.
- Lin, T., Brereton, L., Conklin, A., Newbould, J., & Roland, M. (2012). Barriers and facilitators to integrating care: experiences from the English Integrated Care Pilots. International Journal of Integrated Care 12 (24): 1-12. Read it online.
- Smith, S.M., Soubhi, H., Fortin, M., Hudon, C., & O’Dowd, T. (2012). Managing patients with multimorbidity: Systematic review of interventions in primary care and community settings. British Medical Journal Sept 3; 345: e5205. Read it online.
- Ekdahl, A.W., Hellström, L., Andersson, L., & Friedrichsen, M. (2012). Too complex and time-consuming to fit in! Physicians’ experiences of elderly patients and their participation in medical decision making: A grounded theory study. BMJ Open 2 (3). Read it online.
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