title: Tracking care in San Diego.
abstract: Standardizing care cost-effectively, while carefully tracking individual patients' progress through the care continuum, has challenged health systems around the country. In an excerpt adapted from a new book, the author, the operations strategist at ScrippsHealth, describes how one of the nation's leading integrated delivery organizations has answered the call.
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authors.lastname: Lakier
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D019090:Case Management; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D019091:Critical Pathways; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010358:Patient Participation; D017060:Patient Satisfaction