Patient experiences with care across various types of mental health care: Questionnaire development, measurement invariance, and patients' reports.

To describe the development, validation, and findings of a patient experience questionnaire across 7 types of residential and ambulatory mental health care services. Thirty-five items were hypothesized to cover information, participation, therapeutic relationship, personalized care, organization and collaboration, safety, patient rights, outcomes of care, and discharge preparation and after-care. Also included were 2 overall rating items (scoring and recommending the organization).

Focus groups to explore healthcare professionals' experiences of care coordination: towards a theoretical framework for the study of care coordination.

Background: Strategies to improve care coordination between primary and hospital care do not always have the desired results. This is partly due to incomplete understanding of the key concepts of care coordination. An in-depth analysis of existing theoretical frameworks for the study of care coordination identified 14 interrelated key concepts.

Care pathways to improve care co-ordination and quality between primary and hospital care for patients with radical prostatectomy: a quality improvement project.

Background: Care pathways are widely used in hospitals to improve quality. There is a growing interest in extending care pathways into primary care. There is little evidence on the relationship between care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum and improvement in quality of care.

Care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum: using the multi-level framework in explaining care coordination.

Background: Care pathways are widely used in hospitals for a structured and detailed planning of the care process. There is a growing interest in extending care pathways into primary care to improve quality of care by increasing care coordination. Evidence is sparse about the relationship between care pathways and care coordination.

An in-depth analysis of theoretical frameworks for the study of care coordination.

Introduction: Complex chronic conditions often require long-term care from various healthcare professionals. Thus, maintaining quality care requires care coordination. Concepts for the study of care coordination require clarification to develop, study and evaluate coordination strategies.

Multidisciplinary team meetings about a patient in primary care: an explorative study.

Unlabelled: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MTM) about a patient are a way to coordinate fragmented care. The Minimal Data Set/Resident Assessment Instrument (MDS/RAI) is a tool to prepare and support these meetings.

Methods: An exploratory, qualitative study was used to examine the factors that influence the need for an MTM and to determine the value of MDS/RAI supporting the MTM.

The perception of the clinical relevance of the MDS-Home Care(C) tool by trainers in general practice in Belgium.

Background: comprehensive geriatric assessment has been advocated as an effective way to first identify multidimensional needs and second to establish priorities for organizing an individual health care plan for community-dwelling elderly. This paper reports on the perception of an internationally evaluated assessment system for use in community care programmes, the Minimal Data Set-Home Care (MDS-HC), by a group of experienced GP trainers.

Objective: the primary study aim was to determine the perception of a standardized home care assessment system (MDS-HC) by GP trainers in terms of acceptability, perceived clinical relevance, care planning empowerment and valorization of the GP.

Does the use of care plans improve the quality of home care?

Background: To ensure coordinated care in complex home care situations in Flanders a system of funded care plans was developed some 15 years ago. In the literature little evidence is found on the value of care plans in home care. The question arises as to whether funding and implementing these care plans has a significant effect on the quality of home care.