Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
"Delivery of Health Care, Integrated" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (Coddington et al., Integrated Health Care: Reorganizing the Physician, Hospital and Health Plan Relationship, 1994, p7)
| Descriptor ID |
D019033
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.374.142 N05.300.262
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| Concept/Terms |
Integrated Delivery Systems- Integrated Delivery Systems
- Delivery System, Integrated
- Delivery Systems, Integrated
- Integrated Delivery System
- System, Integrated Delivery
- Systems, Integrated Delivery
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Wells KJ, Battaglia TA, Dudley DJ, Garcia R, Greene A, Calhoun E, Mandelblatt JS, Paskett ED, Raich PC. Patient navigation: state of the art or is it science? Cancer. 2008 Oct 15; 113(8):1999-2010.