title: Taking steps toward integration.
abstract: If patients are to be at the center of health care, then providers should work diligently to better organize the delivery system. In this Perspective, two Mayo Clinic leaders provide their views on why it is necessary for physicians and hospitals to set aside their differences and work together for the good of their patients. They cite successful enterprises nationwide that combine hospital and physician control. Many of them have been recognized as examples.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic, USA. cortese.denis@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cortese
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Smoldt
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008511:Medicine; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States