Table 2.

Characteristics of IC versus CC.

Characteristics	Integrative care	Collaborative care
Sharing of healthcare resources	Interdisciplinary team of medical staff working together on a regular basis as part of a single entity	Interdisciplinary team of medical staff working together for a specific issue/goal during a period of time
	Sharing of medical equipment and beds for a better allocation within the common governance structure	Sharing of medical equipment and beds to increase the healthcare capability across governance structures
Dependency	Common governance structure	Independent administrative structure
	Work dependency	Work independency
	Less autonomous while working together	Maintain autonomy while working together
	Requires collaboration	Precondition for integration
Decision making	Cooperative sharing of information	Cooperative sharing of information
	Decision on medical services is planned in advance	Decision on medical services is made on a demand basis
	Decision making follows common practice guidelines and treatment plans	Requires a sharing of information in the decision making

Note: Adapted from Boon et al. (2009).