Table 3.
Characteristics of included studies of cross-sector service provision.
| Author | Title | Consumer group | Sectors | Intervention | Primary term | Year range of included studies | Location of authors | Included articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler (2011) | Does integrated care improve treatment for depression? | Individuals with depression | Mental health and primary care | Integrated care planning | Integration | 1995–2006 | USA | 49 |
| Collet (2010) | Efficacy of integrated interventions combining psychiatric care and nursing home care for nursing home residents: A review of the literature | Nursing home clients with mental health concerns | Psychiatric care and nursing homes | Integrated interventions combining both psychiatric care and nursing home care in nursing home residents | Integration | 1996–2003 | Europe | 8 |
| Davies (2011) | A systematic review of integrated working between care homes and health care services | Nursing home patients with primary care needs | Healthcare services and care homes | Interventions designed to develop, promote or facilitate integrated working between care home or nursing home staff and healthcare practitioners | Integration | 1998–2008 | UK | 17 |
| Donald (2005) | Integrated versus non-integrated management and care for clients with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders: A qualitative systematic review of randomized controlled trials | Mental health and substance abuse | Mental health and substance-use disorder | Integrated approaches are compared with non-integrated approaches for treatment of adults with co-occurring mental health and substance-use disorder | Integration | 1993–2001 | Australia | 10 |
| Dowling (2004) | Conceptualizing successful partnerships | General health and social care | Not described | Not described | Partnership | 1999–2003 | UK | 36 |
| Fisher (2012) | Health and social services integration: A review of concepts and models | Veterans | Veterans health and social care - general | Different approaches to services integration for the needs of veterans | Integration | 1993–2008 | USA | 76 |
| Fleury (2006) | Integrated service networks: The Quebec case | General – not specified | General – not specified | Not mentioned | Integration | 1961–2005 | Canada | 46* |
| Green (2014) | Cross sector collaboration in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander childhood obesity: A systematic integrative review and theory-based synthesis | Indigenous children with disability | Health, education and social services | Inter- and intra- sector collaboration in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander childhood disability | Collaboration | 2001–2014 | Australia | 18 |
| Grenfell (2013) | Tuberculosis, injecting drug use and integrated HIV-TB care: A review of the literature | Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), injecting drug user (IDU) with Potential for Tuberculosis (TB) | Health, substance abuse and social services | Governmental or non-governmental health or community-based services providing testing, prevention, treatment or other care for TB or HIV and TB, either directly or by referral. | Integration | 1995–2011 | UK | 87 |
| Hillier (2010) | A systematic review of collaborative models for health and education professionals working in school settings and implications for training | School-aged children | Education and health sectors related to children of school age | Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary teams and any conclusions drawn about the knowledge or skills required by the professionals to promote these models. | Collaboration | 1980–2005 | Australia | 34 |
| Howarth (2006) | Education needs for integrated care: A literature review | Primary care | Primary care with social care | Education and training initiatives | Integration | 1995–2002 | UK | 25 |
| Hussain (2014) | Integrated models of care for medical inpatients with psychiatric disorders: A systematic review | Medicine in patients with psychiatric concerns | Health and mental health | Integrated models of care where psychiatrists and general medical physicians, either in isolation or in combination with other allied health staff, were integrated within a single team to provide care to an entire inpatient population. | Integration | 1997–2010 | Canada | 4 |
| Lee (2013) | What is needed to deliver collaborative care to address comorbidity more effectively for adults with a severe mental illness? | Mental health –Adults with comorbid concerns | Mental health, employment, forensic, homelessness, housing, physical health and substance abuse | Models that have addressed comorbidities to Severe Mental Illness, to demonstrate key principles needed to promote collaborative care. | Collaboration | 1995–2012 | Australia | 76* |
| Loader (2008) | Health informatics for older people: A review of ICT facilitated integrated care for older people | Older people with health conditions needing welfare support | Information technology, Computer science and health care (hospitals, clinics, laboratories, surgeries) and social and community agents (housing, voluntary and community groups, social services, carers, community nurses) | Dimensions of care as they were seen to relate to the modernising of adult social care objectives. | Integration | 1981–2005 | UK | 35* |
| Soto (2004) | Literature on integrated HIV care: A review | HIV and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) | Social services, mental health, and substance abuse | Integrated HIV care models HIV-infected clients and their use of ancillary services and integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment | Integration | 1990–2003 | USA | 47 |
| Winters (2015) | Interprofessional collaboration in mental health crisis response systems: A scoping review | Adult mental health crisis | Mental health, emergency department, police, pharmacy, traditional healers, university campus support | Studies that included an intervention or routine for the specific purpose of improving, measuring or exploring Interprofessional Collaborative Practice | Collaboration | 2000–2012 | Canada | 18 |
* Indicates data that were not specified by the original author, but determined by the authors of the current study.