How Different Quality Paradigms Undermine a Shared Value Base for Integrated Care: The Need for Collective Reflexivity.

In the development process of integrated care many impeding factors occur. Our premise is, that many of these barriers are related to the differences in values or perspectives. This article aims to clarify what an important challenge is for the further development of integrated care and for integrated care research.

Exploring the Quality Paradigms in Integrated Care: The Need for Emergence and Reflection.

Introduction And Aim: There are four quality paradigms, of which the Empirical and Reference paradigm fit best in stable circumstances, and the Reflective and Emergence paradigms, which fit best in unstable circumstances. This study aims to explore the use of the four quality paradigms in integrated care, and to shed light on the different paradigmatic commitments and different perspectives on quality.

Methods: Peer-reviewed articles from the International Journal of Integrated care published between January 2015 and December 2019 were included in this study.

Research in Integrated Care: The Need for More Emergent, People-Centred Approaches.

The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) recently celebrated its 20 International Conference (ICIC20) through a virtual event that brought together patients and carers, academics, care professionals, NGOs, policy-makers and industry partners from across the global integrated care community [1]. The International Journal for Integrated Care (IJIC) used this opportunity to host a workshop on published research in integrated care, specifically to reflect on the quality of existing scientific enquiry. A lively discussion on the current state of integrated care research concluded that there remained significant shortcomings to current methodologies - for example, in their ability to provide the depth of understanding required to support the knowledge needed to best inform policy and practice, particularly when addressing people-centredness.