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Thursday, December 15, 2022
10 a.m. EDT / 7 a.m. PDT

The How to Get Published in Integrated Care webinar is aimed at all those interested in writing scientific papers on their programs or initiatives, emerging researchers, as well as experienced, published academics, this webinar will allow you to dig deep into the current trends of integrated care publishing and the state of publishing in this field. Engage directly with leading names in integrated care, who will share their advice on how to get published.

Attendees of the webinar will have the opportunity to develop the following skills;

• Collaborate with others
• Structure your submissions
• Adapt your research to meet current topics
• Identify how to make your work stand out

The interactive webinar will be led by editors of the International Journal for Integrated Care (IJIC),

• Professor Viktoria Stein, Joint Editor-in-Chief of IJIC
• Professor Robin Miller, Joint Editor-in-Chief of IJIC
• Dr. Cara English, CEO and Director of Academic Programs of Cummings Graduate Institute of Behavioral Health Studies (CGI)

Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies (cgi.edu)

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Call updated with extended deadline

The Integrated Care Workforce: What does it need? Who does it take?

This special collection seeks to bring together papers that explore all facets of an integrated care workforce. We understand the integrated care workforce to comprise health and social care professionals, carers, volunteers, etc. but we are open to being challenged on this point. 

This special collection is keen to receive original papers under the three categories:

• Policy papers;
• Research and Theory papers; and
• Integrated Care Cases.

The publication of the special collection seeks to coincide with ICIC23 that will be convened in Antwerp, Belgium from 23-25 May 2023.

Deadlines
Submission deadline: 31st December 2022
Expected publication launch of special collection: May 2023

For further details, please download the full call for papers.

OECD Health Working Paper No. 142, May 2022,

Eliana Barrenho, Philip Haywood, Candan Kendir and Niek Klazinga

Across OECD countries, two in three people aged over 65 years live with at least one chronic condition often requiring multiple interactions with different providers, making them more susceptible to poor and fragmented care. This has prompted calls for making health systems more people-centred, capable of delivering high-quality integrated care. Despite promising, mostly local-level, experiences, systems remain fragmented, focused on acute care and unsuitable to solve complex needs. Moreover, assessing and comparing the benefits of integrated care remains difficult given the lack of technically sound, policy-relevant indicators. This report presents the results of the first OECD pilot of a new generation of indicators to support international benchmarking of quality of integrated care. Lessons from the pilot call for further work on: (1) expanding work on indicator development; (2) performing policy analysis to understand cross-country variations on governance models and health financing; (3) upscaling data linkage; and (4) measuring care fragmentation.

The report provides five key messages:

1. When reviewing national best practices, countries collect a growing volume of data but the lack of systematic data linkage at patient level undermines the value of the data to inform performance measurement for integrated care.
2. The 2020-2021 OECD pilot data on Integrated Care covered 15 countries and developed a new generation of indicators on mortality, readmissions and prescribed medicines for post-discharge care in stroke and congestive heart failure using linked data at patient level over a six-year period.
3. The pilot showed data collection is feasible, but linkage remains a challenge – 15 countries submitted data on mortality and readmissions but only four countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland and Sweden) provided post-discharge medicine prescription data.
4. Data analysis suggests that OECD average masks large cross-country variations in outcomes within one year after discharge while trend analysis within countries shows improvements in outcomes. More analysis with multiple indicators and increased data linkages are required to measure integrated care.
5. To improve the international comparability of future data collections the OECD will refine the indicators and integrate into routine data collections the indicators on mortality and readmissions for post-discharge care in ischaemic stroke and congestive heart failure.

IFIC welcomes this report as a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of how to best measure integrate care. We believe it will be a good summer read to our global network.

Read the paper International comparisons of the quality and outcomes of integrated care

A Supplementary Analysis is available to complement this publication as well as the 2020-2021 OECD Data Collection Guidelines supporting the pilot data collection.

Please consult https://www.oecd.org/health/integrated-care.htm for more detailed information about ongoing OECD work on Integrated Care.