Table 3.
List of included records.
| Study/Reference | Country | Population/Theme | Type of publication/design | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amelung and Wolf, 2011 [12] | Germany | Patients with multiple chronic diseases | Overview article | Not described explicitly |
| Bayliss et al., 2008 [13] | USA | Elderly patients with multimorbidity in community housing | Primary study/qualitative interviews | Explore processes of care desired by elderly patients |
| Berry et al., 2013 [14] | USA | Patients with complex health profiles/integrated care coordination program | Primary study/institutional case study | Not described explicitly |
| Bleijenberg et al., 2013 [15] | Netherlands | GPs and nurses | Primary study/survey | Report expectations and experiences of U-CARE programme |
| Boeckxstaens et al., 2011 [4] | Europe | Primary care | Position paper | Address the needs of older patients in primary care practice |
| Boult et al., 2011 [16] | USA | Older patients with multimorbidity | Primary study/cluster-RCT | Measure effect of guide care teams on use of healthcare services |
| Bower et al., 2011 [17] | UK | Patients with multiple long-term health conditions/primary care | Primary study/qualitative interviews | Explore GP and nurse perceptions of multimorbidity and influence on service organization and decision-making |
| Burgers et al., 2010 [18] | Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK, USA | Chronically ill adults from eight countries with and without multimorbidity | Primary study/telephone survey | Examine whether experience of patients varies in terms of coordination of care and overall quality |
| De Bruin et al., 2012 [19] | Netherlands | Patients with multiple chronic conditions/comprehensive care programmes | Systematic literature review | Provide insights into characteristics of comprehensive care programmes and their impact |
| De Jonge et al., 2006 [20] | Netherlands | Complex patients who have comorbidities | Overview article | Evaluate the potential use of concept of complexity |
| DuGoff et al., 2013 [21] | USA | Multimorbidity/care coordination quality measures | Primary study/systematic search and assessment | Identify what care coordination processes are being measured and assess alignment |
| Erler et al., 2011 [22] | Netherlands, USA, UK | Primary care systems | Primary study/analytical comparative study | Analyse main problems for primary care and review strategies and practice models |
| Füsgen, 2011 [23] | Germany | Geriatric patients including patients with multimorbidity | Overview article/discussion paper | Discussion of geriatric efforts, including structural changes |
| Gilbert et al., 2011 [24] | Australia | Older patients with multiple health problems | Primary study/database survey and interviews | Identify and evaluate management and care of multiple chronic health problems |
| Goodwin et al., 2013 [25] | UK | Care coordination programmess for people with long-term and complex chronic conditions | Report/comparative analysis | Examine key lessons and markers for success in the “how” of care coordination |
| Haggerty, 2012 [26] | Canada | Patients with multimorbidity and continuity of care | Editorial | Not described explicitly |
| Implement, 2013 [5] | Denmark | Patients with chronic conditions/primary and secondary healthcare | Report | Thematic description of the results and experiences from 234 government-funded projects |
| Jones and Rosenberg, 2011 [27] | USA | Integration and coordination across behavioural health and primary care | Primary study/survey | Identify how members gauged importance of integration |
| Kathol et al., 2010 [28] | USA | Integration of mental health intervention in primary care settings | Primary study/interviews | Assess pragmatic challenges of implementing, delivering and sustaining models of integrated care |
| Latour et al., 2007 [29] | Netherlands | Complex medically ill patients/the INTERMED | Overview article | Describe the INTERMED method and its applicability to nursing process |
| Maeng et al., 2012 [30] | USA | Adults with chronic conditions | Primary study/telephone survey | Identify factors associated with perception of care coordination problems |
| Martin and Borst, 2013 [31] | Denmark | Patients with COPD and multimorbidity and their caregivers | Primary study/interviews | Describe experiences of patient and caregivers in relation to continuity of care |
| McCormick and Boling, 2005 [32] | USA | Older patients with multimorbidity | Editorial | Not described explicitly |
| Mollica and Gillespie, 2003 [33] | USA | People with (multiple) chronic conditions | Report | Explore the components of care coordination and a sample of state initiatives |
| Newbould et al., 2012 [34] | UK | Elderly patients with long-term conditions | Primary study/interviews | Explore variations and emergent experience of care planning |
| Noël et al., 2007 [35] | USA | Patients with multimorbidity compared to patients with single chronic illnesses | Primary study/cross sectional survey | Examine self-management learning needs and willingness to see non-physician providers |
| Noël et al., 2005 [36] | USA | Primary care patients with multimorbidity | Primary study/interviews | Explore collaborative care needs and preferences |
| Olsen et al., 2013 [37] | Norway | Older patients who are transferred between health care organizations | Primary study/database survey | Evaluate prevalence of nursing transfer documents and identify patient and transfer characteristics |
| Paulus et al., 2013 [38] | Belgium | Management of chronic diseases/patients with multimorbidity | Overview article | Describe development and main stances for proposed reforms |
| Plochg et al., 2009 [39] | Netherlands | Professional organizations/medical professionals | Discussion paper | Changing medical professionalism to fit changing health needs of complex and chronically ill patients |
| Roland and Paddison, 2013 [40] | UK | Patients with multimorbidity/management | Overview article/analysis | Discuss current problems and suggest steps for improvement |
| Røsstad et al., 2013 [41] | Norway | Development of patient-centred care pathway across healthcare providers | Primary study/interviews and observation | Investigate process and experience of participants |
| Salisbury, 2013 [42] | UK | Multimorbidity | Editorial | Not described explicitly |
| Sampalli et al., 2012 [43] | Canada | Individuals with multimorbidity | Overview article and pilot results | Describe integrated model of care and results of pilot evaluation |
| Schoen et al., 2009 [44] | International | Adults with chronic conditions who had recent healthcare experience | Primary study/survey | Patient experience of access, coordination, safety and care management |
| Singer et al., 2011 [45] | USA | Object of care integration and essential components | Overview article | Propose definition and measures based on the definition |
| Sinnott et al., 2013 [46] | Ireland | Patients with multimorbidity | Systematic review and meta ethno-graphic synthesis | Synthesize the literature on GPs’ experiences of clinical management of multimorbidity |
| Smith and Clarke, 2006 [47] | Australia | Integrated interventions and chronic illness | Overview article | Review what is learned about integrated care and discuss conceptual and methodological difficulties |
| Smith et al., 2012 [48] | Ireland | Patients with multimorbidity in primary care and community settings | Cochrane Review | Determine the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve outcomes |
| Soubhi et al., 2010 [49] | Canada | Patients with multimorbidity | Overview article | Introduce primary care practice model |
| Stiefel and Huyse, 2006 [50] | Switzerland | Complex patients with biopsychosocial comorbidities/integrated care | Discussion paper | Not described explicitly |
| Stiefel et al., 2006 [51] | Switzerland | Operationalizing Integrated Care – The INTERMED Project | Overview article | Describe the INTERMED (interview-based instrument to assess case complexity) |
| Vedel et al., 2013 [52] | France | Collaborative care model in primary care | Primary study/longitudinal case study | Analyse the PCPs’ and nurses’ decision to adopt or not and to determine model’s diffusion process |
| Vedel et al., 2011 [53] | Canada | People with multiple chronic conditions in Quebec | Wide-ranging literature review | Describe the transformation underway and results of recent initiatives in integrated health and social care |
| van der Vlegel-Brouwer, 2013 [54] | Netherlands | Chronically ill/integrated care | Overview article | Not described explicitly |
| Walker, 2012 [55] | Australia | Multiple conditions | Qualitative literature review | Explore current literature |
| Wulsin et al., 2006 [56] | USA | Models of integrated care | Overview article | Describe models |
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; GP, general practitioner; PCP, primary care practitioner; RCT, randomized controlled trial.