Table 2.

Key recommendations from Order from Chaos: Accelerating Care Integration

Target of recommendation	Recommendation
All stakeholders: federal and state governmental agencies, consumer groups	Create mechanisms for developing a shared understanding among public and private stakeholders regarding the link between care integration and patient safety. Use working groups and public forums, best practices and patient stories to be catalogued and disseminated.
Healthcare leaders and practitioners, public	Patients and families must become active participants in process improvement and design and redesign efforts and review organisational performance.
Regulatory and accrediting bodies	Create methods of measuring care integration, along with robust assessment and evaluation metrics and incorporate these measures into public reporting systems.
Medical schools, professional societies, non-profits	Provide education and training for executives, boards, clinicians and medical students that focuses on patient safety and care integration.
Researchers, industry	Develop the technology and infrastructure to allow for national spread of organisational and operational expertise to support care integration.