TABLE 3.

Forms of Clinical Integration

•Guidelines, pathways, and protocols

Development

Implementation

•Profiling of physicians and episodes

•Feedback on physicians' performance

•Credentialing of physicians

•Common identifier of patients

•Disease registry

•Case management

•Medical management committees

•Disease management

•Demand management

•Patients' self-management skills and education

•Clinical information systems: EMR, CPOE, etc.

•Clinical service lines

Inpatient

Outpatient

•Quality improvement steering councils

•Continuous quality improvement (CQI)

Inpatient

Outpatient