title: Implementing organized delivery systems: an integration scorecard.
abstract: Organized vertically integrated health systems are in a key position to play a major role in present health care reform efforts. To demonstrate a competitive advantage in the new health care environment, however, integration efforts must be successful. Based on a national study of nine organized delivery systems, this article develops measures of three types of integration that occur in vertically integrated health systems--functional, physician-system, and clinical. These measures can be used as a "scorecard" to assess progress toward achieving integration objectives.
authors: University of California, Berkeley.
authors: K J
authors: KJ
authors: Devers
authors: S M
authors: SM
authors: Shortell
authors: R R
authors: RR
authors: Gillies
authors: D A
authors: DA
authors: Anderson
authors: J B
authors: JB
authors: Mitchell
authors: K L
authors: KL
authors: Erickson
mesh_terms: D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004465:Economic Competition; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006302:Health Services Research; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States