G Ross Baker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 836288 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Ross Baker |
| PRENOMES | G Ross |
| SOBRENOME | Baker |
| ASSINATURA | BAKER G R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4107-7114 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Next Frontier of People-Centred Care
Background: In the evolving landscape of integrated health systems, advancing people-centred care is crucial for fostering safe, equitable, comprehensive, and sustainable health and social care systems and services that meet community and population health needs. Patients' experiential knowledge is increasingly recognized as a complementary, valuable form of knowledge enriching professional expertise. A 2024 publication by Vincent Dumez and Audre…
Workshop on Adaptive Leadership Strategies for Integrated Care
Background: Leadership is a critical element for developing effective integrated care (Miller and Stein, 2020; Goodwin, 2020; Dickson and Smith, 2021; Miller, et al. 2023). While many health and social care systems have focused on the technical changes needed for integration, fewer systems have successfully identified and addressed the adaptive changes required to ensure technical changes are achieved. Adaptive change strategies enable leaders an…
Integrated care for adults with chronic musculoskeletal disorders
Objective: This protocol aims to guide the process to conduct scoping review on synthesizing the extent of the use, approaches, and evidence behind the implementation of integrated care approaches for people with chronic musculoskeletal disorders. Introduction: Evidence shows that care for people with chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders is fragmented and siloed among different services and providers. In Canada, services are rarely integrated …
The Integrated Care World is a Stage
Among the challenges in delivering integrated health and social care services is the need to attend to the coordination of tasks, roles, activities, and operations, while considering how these efforts are experienced by patients, carers and communities. The literature has noted an important disconnect between how providers and leaders view their efforts to coordinate service delivery, and how patients perceive these efforts on the receiving end. …
Every Team Needs a Coach
Introduction: Globally, health systems are moving toward better integrated care organization and delivery. A current example within the Canadian context is the restructuring of care delivery in Ontario, in alignment with the Quadruple Aim. The vision for reorganizing care into Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) was announced by the government in early 2019 and this has prompted care providers across sectors to choose priority patient populations and eng…
A Performance Measurement Framework for Integrated Care Networks
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Shifting paradigms
Frameworks for understanding integrated care risk underemphasizing the complexities of the development of integrated care in a local context. The objectives of this article are to (1) present a novel strategy for conceptualizing integrated care as developing through a series of milestones at the organizational level, and (2) present a typology of milestones empirically generated through the analysis of four cases of integrated community-based pri…
Applying the principles of adaptive leadership to person‐centred care for people with complex care needs
Approaches to optimize patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement
BACKGROUND: Patient engagement (PE) in health-care planning and improvement is a growing practice. We lack evidence-based guidance for PE, particularly in hospital settings. This study explored how to optimize PE in hospitals. METHODS: This study was based on qualitative interviews with individuals in various roles at hospitals with high PE capacity. We asked how patients were engaged, rationale for approaches chosen and solutions for key challen…
Combining Integration of Care and a Population Health Approach
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Many health systems attempt to develop integrated and population health-oriented systems of care, but knowledge of strategies and interventions to support this effort is lacking. We aimed to identify specific redesign strategies and interventions, and to present evidence of their effectiveness. METHOD: A modified scoping review process was carried out. Fifteen relevant examples of integrated care organizations that incorporate…
Designing a survey assessing the scale and spread of integrated care in the iCoach project
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Engaging patients to improve quality of care
Mapping for Conceptual Clarity
This work represents a first step towards development of a fully formed conceptual framework that includes key domains, concepts, and mechanisms of implementing integrated community-based primary health care
A Research Program on Implementing Integrated Care for Older Adults with Complex Health Needs (iCoach)
Health and social care systems across western developed nations are being challenged to meet the needs of an increasing number of people aging with multiple complex health and social needs. Community based primary health care (CBPHC) has been associated with more equitable access to services, better population level outcomes and lower system level costs. Itmay be well suited to the increasingly complex needs of populations; however the implementa…
Adaptation and standardization of integrated care practices to facilitate scale-up and spread
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
A Population Health Approach
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Complexity-compatible' policy for integrated care? Lessons from the implementation of Ontario's Health Links
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory views healthcare as numerous sub-systems characterized by diverse agents that interact, self-organize, and continuously adapt. We apply this complexity science perspective to examine the extent to which CAS theory is a useful lens for designing and implementing health policies. We present the case of Health Links, a "low rules" policy intervention in Ontario, Canada aimed at stimulating the development of vol…
Understanding the Attributes of Implementation Frameworks to Guide the Implementation of a Model of Community-based Integrated Health Care for Older Adults with Complex Chronic Conditions
Managerial strategies for integrated care
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Effective Organizational Leadership in the Implementation of Integrated Care; Lessons from 9 cases in the iCoach Project
Introduction: Policy makers in many countries are encouraging the development of integrated care strategies and the development of new models of integrated care. These new models require changes at a clinical or service level, organizational level and system level with strong leadership necessary at all three levels. Despite the key role of leadership in these efforts, there has been only limited study of what organizational leadership approach i…
On the Margins and Not the Mainstream
Healthcare system reforms are pushing beyond primary care to more holistic, integrated models of community based primary health care (CBPHC) to better meet the needs of aging populations and their carers. Across the world CBPHC is at varying stages of evolution and no standard model exists. In order to scale up and spread successful models of care it is important to study what works well and why to support broader efforts to implement, scale-up a…
Evolving Integrated Care
Introduction: Current investments in integrated care have predominantly focused on downstream strategies designed to reduce the fragmentation of healthcare services. Yet, there is a growing recognition that integrated care strategies must also move upstream and focus on health and wellness at the population level. Progress in this area has been slow, but a number of early adopters of the population health approach in integrated care provide insig…
Organizational Context and Capabilities for Integrating Care
Introduction: Interventions aimed at integrating care have become widespread in healthcare; however, there is significant variability in their success. Differences in organizational contexts and associated capabilities may be responsible for some of this variability. This study develops and validates a conceptual framework of organizational capabilities for integrating care, identifies which of these capabilities may be most important, and explor…
Can complexity dynamics be harnessed to improve integration of care? The implementation of the Health Links in Ontario, Canada
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Managerial strategies for integrated care
Introduction: The implementation of integrated care involves efforts to engage health care providers in a vision of health care delivery that includes coordination and collaboration for the care of individual clients. The processes by which health care providers engage with an organizational vision for integrated care, and the challenges associated with encouraging health care providers to adopt integrated practices remain under-explored in the r…
Complexity-compatible' policy for integrated care? Lessons from the implementation of Ontario's Health Links
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory views healthcare as numerous sub-systems characterized by diverse agents that interact, self-organize, and continuously adapt. We apply this complexity science perspective to examine the extent to which CAS theory is a useful lens for designing and implementing health policies. We present the case of Health Links, a "low rules" policy intervention in Ontario, Canada aimed at stimulating the development of vol…
Organizational Context and Capabilities for Integrating Care
Organizational leaders can use the framework to determine readiness to integrate care, develop targeted change management strategies, and select appropriate partners with overlapping or complementary profiles on key capabilities. Researchers may use the results to test and refine the proposed framework, with a focus on the hypothesized relationships among organizational capabilities and between organizational capabilities and performance outcomes
Organizational Context Matters
The toolkit can be used to characterize and compare organizational contexts across cases and enable comparison of results across studies. This information can enhance our understanding of the influence of organizational contexts, support the transfer of best practices, and help explain why some integrated care initiatives succeed and some fail
Shifting paradigms
Frameworks for understanding integrated care risk underemphasizing the complexities of the development of integrated care in a local context. The objectives of this article are to (1) present a novel strategy for conceptualizing integrated care as developing through a series of milestones at the organizational level, and (2) present a typology of milestones empirically generated through the analysis of four cases of integrated community-based pri…
A Research Program on Implementing Integrated Care for Older Adults with Complex Health Needs (iCoach)
Health and social care systems across western developed nations are being challenged to meet the needs of an increasing number of people aging with multiple complex health and social needs. Community based primary health care (CBPHC) has been associated with more equitable access to services, better population level outcomes and lower system level costs. Itmay be well suited to the increasingly complex needs of populations; however the implementa…
The effects of quality improvement practices on team effectiveness
Researchers have been challenged to specify the processes that quality improvement (QI) practices could be expected to generate and to explain how they might contribute to organizational effectiveness. This research article meets that challenge through a study of 97 teams in the health care field. The authors developed a ‘Quality Improvement Practices Index’ and showed that QI practices could be differentiated from traditional team‐level variable…
Health and Canadian Society
Managerial strategies for integrated care
Introduction: The implementation of integrated care involves efforts to engage health care providers in a vision of health care delivery that includes coordination and collaboration for the care of individual clients. The processes by which health care providers engage with an organizational vision for integrated care, and the challenges associated with encouraging health care providers to adopt integrated practices remain under-explored in the r…
The Integrated Care World is a Stage
Among the challenges in delivering integrated health and social care services is the need to attend to the coordination of tasks, roles, activities, and operations, while considering how these efforts are experienced by patients, carers and communities. The literature has noted an important disconnect between how providers and leaders view their efforts to coordinate service delivery, and how patients perceive these efforts on the receiving end. …
Mapping for Conceptual Clarity
This work represents a first step towards development of a fully formed conceptual framework that includes key domains, concepts, and mechanisms of implementing integrated community-based primary health care
Health and Canadian Society
The effects of quality improvement practices on team effectiveness
Researchers have been challenged to specify the processes that quality improvement (QI) practices could be expected to generate and to explain how they might contribute to organizational effectiveness. This research article meets that challenge through a study of 97 teams in the health care field. The authors developed a ‘Quality Improvement Practices Index’ and showed that QI practices could be differentiated from traditional team‐level variable…
Nurse Staffing Models as Predictors of Patient Outcomes
BACKGROUND: Little research has been conducted that examined the intended effects of nursing care on clinical outcomes. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of different nurse staffing models on the patient outcomes of functional status, pain control, and patient satisfaction with nursing care. RESEARCH DESIGN: A repeated-measures study was conducted in all 19 teaching hospitals in Ontario, Canada. SUBJECTS: The sampl…
Using the H ealth B elief M odel to explain patient involvement in patient safety
BACKGROUND: With the knowledge that patient safety incidents can significantly impact patients, providers and health-care organizations, greater emphasis on patient involvement as a means to mitigate risks warrants further research. OBJECTIVE: To understand whether patient perceptions of patient safety play a role in patient involvement in factual and challenging patient safety practices and whether the constructs of the Health Belief Model (HBM)…
Implementing a “Low-Rules” Provincial Integrated Care Initiative in Canada
Introduction: This study explores the implementation of "Health Links", a provincial integrated care initiative aimed at transforming care systems for high needs patients in Ontario, Canada. Launched in 2012 with 19 early adopters, there are currently 54 operational Health Links in Ontario. Each Health Link consists of multiple providers and is led by a coordinating partner such as a hospital, primary care group, or community support agency
Organizational Context and Capabilities for Integrating Care
Organizational leaders can use the framework to determine readiness to integrate care, develop targeted change management strategies, and select appropriate partners with overlapping or complementary profiles on key capabilities. Researchers may use the results to test and refine the proposed framework, with a focus on the hypothesized relationships among organizational capabilities and between organizational capabilities and performance outcomes
Navigating the Challenges of Building Integrated Care Models
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Understanding the Attributes of Implementation Frameworks to Guide the Implementation of a Model of Community-based Integrated Health Care for Older Adults with Complex Chronic Conditions
Managerial strategies for integrated care
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Effective Organizational Leadership in the Implementation of Integrated Care; Lessons from 9 cases in the iCoach Project
Introduction: Policy makers in many countries are encouraging the development of integrated care strategies and the development of new models of integrated care. These new models require changes at a clinical or service level, organizational level and system level with strong leadership necessary at all three levels. Despite the key role of leadership in these efforts, there has been only limited study of what organizational leadership approach i…
On the Margins and Not the Mainstream
Healthcare system reforms are pushing beyond primary care to more holistic, integrated models of community based primary health care (CBPHC) to better meet the needs of aging populations and their carers. Across the world CBPHC is at varying stages of evolution and no standard model exists. In order to scale up and spread successful models of care it is important to study what works well and why to support broader efforts to implement, scale-up a…
Evolving Integrated Care
Introduction: Current investments in integrated care have predominantly focused on downstream strategies designed to reduce the fragmentation of healthcare services. Yet, there is a growing recognition that integrated care strategies must also move upstream and focus on health and wellness at the population level. Progress in this area has been slow, but a number of early adopters of the population health approach in integrated care provide insig…
Organizational Context and Capabilities for Integrating Care
Introduction: Interventions aimed at integrating care have become widespread in healthcare; however, there is significant variability in their success. Differences in organizational contexts and associated capabilities may be responsible for some of this variability. This study develops and validates a conceptual framework of organizational capabilities for integrating care, identifies which of these capabilities may be most important, and explor…
Can complexity dynamics be harnessed to improve integration of care? The implementation of the Health Links in Ontario, Canada
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Managerial strategies for integrated care
Introduction: The implementation of integrated care involves efforts to engage health care providers in a vision of health care delivery that includes coordination and collaboration for the care of individual clients. The processes by which health care providers engage with an organizational vision for integrated care, and the challenges associated with encouraging health care providers to adopt integrated practices remain under-explored in the r…
Organizational Context Matters
The toolkit can be used to characterize and compare organizational contexts across cases and enable comparison of results across studies. This information can enhance our understanding of the influence of organizational contexts, support the transfer of best practices, and help explain why some integrated care initiatives succeed and some fail
Mapping for conceptual clarity
Background: Studying implementation of integrated models of community-based primary health care takes a “whole systems” multidisciplinary approach to capture micro (patient/carer and provider), meso (organization) and macro (system/policy) factors. In new research studying the implementation of these integrated models intended to improve care for older adults with complex care needs, our project team adopted four theoretical perspectives to captu…
Engaging patients to improve quality of care
Mapping for Conceptual Clarity
This work represents a first step towards development of a fully formed conceptual framework that includes key domains, concepts, and mechanisms of implementing integrated community-based primary health care
A Research Program on Implementing Integrated Care for Older Adults with Complex Health Needs (iCoach)
Health and social care systems across western developed nations are being challenged to meet the needs of an increasing number of people aging with multiple complex health and social needs. Community based primary health care (CBPHC) has been associated with more equitable access to services, better population level outcomes and lower system level costs. Itmay be well suited to the increasingly complex needs of populations; however the implementa…
Adaptation and standardization of integrated care practices to facilitate scale-up and spread
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
A Population Health Approach
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Complexity-compatible' policy for integrated care? Lessons from the implementation of Ontario's Health Links
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory views healthcare as numerous sub-systems characterized by diverse agents that interact, self-organize, and continuously adapt. We apply this complexity science perspective to examine the extent to which CAS theory is a useful lens for designing and implementing health policies. We present the case of Health Links, a "low rules" policy intervention in Ontario, Canada aimed at stimulating the development of vol…
Combining Integration of Care and a Population Health Approach
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Many health systems attempt to develop integrated and population health-oriented systems of care, but knowledge of strategies and interventions to support this effort is lacking. We aimed to identify specific redesign strategies and interventions, and to present evidence of their effectiveness. METHOD: A modified scoping review process was carried out. Fifteen relevant examples of integrated care organizations that incorporate…
Designing a survey assessing the scale and spread of integrated care in the iCoach project
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.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
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