How to measure effects of integrated primary care

The project "Added value of Integrated Primary Health Care" aims to study the association between integrated primary health care and quality and costs of health care. It is assumed that integrated primary care is related to more cost-effective care. Empirical evidence for such relationships is scarce up till now because instruments to measure these components are missing. The main aim of this project is to develop an instrument to measure "integration of care" and to relate this to quality of the provided care and the health care costs generated in these practices by patients. In the first stage of the project, instruments to measure the level of integration, the quality, and the costs of health care were developed. In a pilot study, it was tested whether different types of data could be linked on an individual level. In this contribution we present the early progress of the project

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