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Discharge and Transition Management in Integrated Care

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A key part of integrated care is to ensure a continuous pathway for a patient when being transferred from one healthcare sector to another. Discharge planning and management tries to achieve exactly that. In almost no other part within the care process one can see a clearer clash of different (a) settings and capacities, (b) personal resources and professional cultures, (c) reimbursement and payment schemes, (d) care and medication procedures, (e) usage of (information) technologies, (f) professional cultures and (g) interests. The following chapter describes what discharge management entails, why it is needed in health care systems and in what different ways it can be organized. In conclusion, discharge management is an essential part of providing integrated care in all health systems, but there is still a long way to go to guarantee adequate transitions for patients in most (if not all) health systems.

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  1. inav GmbH - Institute for Applied Health Services Research, Berlin, Germany

    Dominika Urbanski & Volker Amelung

  2. Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK

    Anika Reichert

  3. Institute for Epidemology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Volker Amelung

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  1. Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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  2. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Viktoria Stein

  3. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  4. Health Policy Research and Planning, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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  5. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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  6. Workforce Research & Evaluation, Alberta Health Services Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Urbanski, D., Reichert, A., Amelung, V. (2017). Discharge and Transition Management in Integrated Care. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Goodwin, N., Balicer, R., Nolte, E., Suter, E. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56103-5_6

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