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. 2016 Apr 8;16(1):10. doi: 10.5334/ijic.2460

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.