title: E pluribus unum: using group model building with many interdependent organizations to create integrated health-care networks.
abstract: This chapter reports on an action research case study of integrated obstetric care in the Netherlands. Efficient and patient-friendly patient flows through integrated care networks are of major societal importance. How to design and develop such interorganizational patient flows is still a nascent research area, especially when dealing with a large number (n>3) of stakeholders. We have shown that a modification of an existing method to support interorganizational collaboration by system dynamics-based group model building (GMB) (the Renga method, Akkermans, 2001) may be effective in achieving such collaboration.
authors: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
authors: Angèle
authors: A
authors: Pieters
authors: Henk
authors: H
authors: Akkermans
authors: Arie
authors: A
authors: Franx
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D054238:Perinatal Mortality / Q000639:trends; D058996:Quality Improvement; D018570:Risk Assessment