International Journal of Integrated Care
Journal Title
- International Journal of Integrated Care
ISSN
- P 1568-4156
Publisher
- Igitur, Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services
Listed on(Coverage)
| JCR | 2012-2023 |
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| SJR | 2008-2010;2013-2020;2022-2023 |
| CiteScore | 2011-2023 |
| SCIE | 2012-2024 |
| CC | 2016-2024 |
| SSCI | 2012-2024 |
| SCOPUS | 2017-2024 |
| DOAJ | 2017-2024 |
OA Info.
| OA |
based on the information
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| Keywords | integrated care, quality of care |
| Review Process | Double anonymous peer review |
| Journal info. pages | |
| Licences | CC BY |
| Copyrights | Yes |
| DOAJ Coverage |
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| Subject(s) | Medicine: Medicine (General) |
Active
- Active
based on the information
- SCOPUS:2024-10
Country
- ENGLAND
Aime & Scopes
- The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis. It is important that prospective authors recognize that IJIC will only consider articles that fit the aims and scope of the Journal. The focus of IJIC is on integrated care. We define this as follows: Integration is a coherent set of methods and models on the funding, administrative, organisational, service delivery and clinical levels designed to create connectivity, alignment and collaboration within and between the cure and care sectors. The goal of these methods and models is to enhance quality of care and quality of life, consumer satisfaction and system efficiency for patients ... cutting across multiple services, providers and settings. [Where] the result of such multi-pronged efforts to promote integration [lead to] the benefit of patient groups [the outcome can be] called 'integrated care' (Kodner and Spreeuwenberg, 2002). It is important for prospective authors to recognise that we distinguish between integration and integrated care, noting that the structures and processes that support organisational and service integration may not always result in the enhanced outcomes and patient experience associated with integrated care. The editorial board of IJIC believes that the primary purpose of integrated care should be to improve quality-of-care, user experiences, and cost-effectiveness of care since such issues give integrated care both a rationale and a common basis on which to judge its impact. The field of integrated care comprises a broad spectrum of themes. Those that fit within the aims and scope of IJIC include: /// Integration between health services, social services and other care providers (horizontal integration); /// Integration across primary, community, hospital and tertiary care services (vertical integration); /// Integration of care within one sector (e.g. within mental health services); /// Integration of care between preventive and curative services; /// Integration of delivery systems that bring together clinicians and managers, funders and deliverers, professionals and patients; /// The use of new technologies and other innovations that enable and support integrated care to flourish; /// The use of system incentives, such as governance, guidance, funding and payment mechanisms, that seek to embed and reward integrated care; and /// Integration between care providers and patients that supports shared-decision making, self-management, and remote care. /// The impact of integrated care in reducing health inequalities. /// Integration of health promotion strategies with population-based and patient-centred approaches to health care; and, /// The relationship between global/International health Within these subject fields, we accept articles that focus on integrated care to populations or particular client groups (e.g. older people, or persons with an unspecified chronic or long-term care need) as well as to particular service areas or diseases (e.g. to people with diabetes).