André-Pierre Contandriopoulos

TL;DR: Integrated systems appear to be feasible and have the potential to reduce hospital and nursing home utilization without increasing costs.

TL;DR: The premise of this paper is that comprehensive health care is a major component in the investigation and evaluation of health services and systems, structured as inter-organizational health care networks articulating clinical, functional, normative, and systemic dimensions in their operationalization.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for evaluation is proposed that is broad and universal enough to allow all those concerned with evaluation of health services to better understand each other, to perform better evaluations, and to use them in a more pertinent manner.

TL;DR: Canada needs to develop a publicly managed community-based system of primary care to provide integrated care for the frail elderly, which would have clinical and financial responsibility for the full range of health and social services required by this population.

TL;DR: The accreditation process is an effective leitmotiv for the introduction of change but is nonetheless subject to a learning cycle and a learning curve.