Annual Conference Supplement 2008: Integrated care networks for the vulnerable elderly: North American prototypes performance and lessons

摘要

PurposeTo describe in general terms the managed care network (MCN) rationale and approach to the organisation and delivery of services to the long term care (LTC) elderly, report on the prototypes and performance associated with three major North American models (PACE in U.S. and SIPA and PRISMA in Canada), and present the major lessons learned from these three programmes.