Table 2.

Study design

Cases and levels studied		Data collection methods	Aspects studied	Key questions of analysis
National level Research project on “Policy development and deployment”		1 interview with national investigator at Ministry of Health and Social Affairs 11 documents studied from National Board of Health and Welfare, The Swedish Agency for Health and Care Services Analysis and The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions	Policy changes related to care of older people	Which of the policy changes contribute to home-centered care?
Regional level Research project on “Policy development and deployment”	Region Skåne	3 interviews with managers responsible for elderly care 17 documents studied	Actions related to policy deployment	How to achieve policy deployment at the local level? Which actions were important for home-centered care?
	Region Östergötland	2 interviews with managers responsible for elderly care 18 documents studied
Local level Research project on “Innovations and new thinking in providing care of older people”	Case: “Health city”	5 interviews with managers responsible for hospital, primary and community care 7 documents studied	Organizational integration of care settings, coordination, discharge teams, and mobile teams	What was done to integrate and coordinate services? What were facilitators and inhibitors for home-centered care?
	Case: “Future care”	22 interviews with professionals from day care unit 10 interviews with professionals from primary care, home care and mobile teams 25 meeting observations 4 documents studied	Operative collaboration group, Day care unit Mobile teams Discharge teams, and in-home services	How do care settings and the patient's role differ at home compared to hospital? What were facilitators and inhibitors for home-centered care?
	Case: “Proactive primary care”	11 interviews with mangers of primary care centers 2 documents studied	Activities related to the new proactive service targeting frail older persons over 75 (Prediction list, CIP, contacts with patients)	What were facilitators and inhibitors of providing the service?

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