Case Management Clinical Paths: Strategies to Support the Perinatal Experience

The nature and impact of collaboration and integrated service delivery for pregnant women, children and families

“…Key findings: The approaches summarised in Table 1 demonstrate varying degrees of collaboration as described by Axelsson and Axelsson in the to the paper. Shared antenatal care is an example of cooperation offering the opportunity for both formal and informal communication between community‐based general practice and hospital‐based maternity services (Bower 1997, Margolis et al. 2001, Lombardo 2003).…”

“…Key findings: The approaches summarised in Table 1 demonstrate varying degrees of collaboration as described by Axelsson and Axelsson in the Background to the paper. Shared antenatal care is an example of cooperation offering the opportunity for both formal and informal communication between community-based general practice and hospitalbased maternity services (Bower 1997, Margolis et al 2001, Lombardo 2003. However, the literature suggests that more often than not GPs and midwives or obstetricians work independent of each other and the pregnant woman simply moves from one to the other (Laslett et al 1997, Lloyd et al 2000, Nicolson et al 2005.…”

“…Resourcing issues: staffing and space Coordinating multiple providers Co-location does not automatically mean services will engage and collaborate with each other (Bower 1997, Laslett et al 1997, Lloyd et al 2000, Margolis et al 2001, Lombardo 2003, Hall 2005, Morrow et al 2005, Nicolson et al 2005, Katz & Hetherington 2006, Rodríguez & des Rivières-Pigeon 2007, Hatem et al 2008, Homer et al 2009). (Hudson 1999, Walter & Petr 2000, Foster-Fishman et al 2001, Johnson et al 2003, Darlington et al 2004, Huxham & Vangen 2004, Scott 2005, Katz & Hetherington 2006, Roberts 2007, Valentine et al 2007).…”

A literature review on integrated perinatal care

“…Instituting shared clinical files [25] and establishing the position of inter-organization program coordinators [25, 26] are two components that seem to facilitate the transmission of information between professionals at different levels of care, thus improving the effectiveness of perinatal programs.…”

Examination of the effect of clinical care maps on the deviations which may occur on the scheduled standard treatment process: a hospital example

“…Amaç kaynak kullanımının etkili hale getirilmesi ve standardize edilmesi, bütüncül ve sürekli bakımın sa¤lanması, bireyin öz-bakım gücünün yükseltilmesi, ekip ibirli¤i, hastanede yatı süresinin kısalması ve hasta memnuniyetinin artırılmasının sa¤lanmasıdır. [6] Bakım Haritaları klinik kılavuzların ve klinik protokollerin uygulanmasını desteklemek için dizayn edilen çok disiplinli bakım planları olarak yapılandırılmılardır. Klinik yönetimi, klinik ya da klinik olmayan kaynak yönetimini, klinik kontrolü sa¤lamak ve finansal yönetimi desteklemek amacıyla oluturulmulardır.…”