Reham Abdelhalim

IHPME · HSR

Introduction: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), implemented in the United States (US), aim to reduce costs and integrate care by aligning incentives among providers and payers. Canadian governments are interested adopting such models to integrate care, though comparative studies assessing the applicability and transferability of ACOs in Canada...

How does leadership emerge and function when multiple health care organizations come together to form a network? In this qualitative comparative case study, we draw on distributed leadership theory to examine the leadership practices that manifested during the implementation of three coordinated care networks. Thirty leaders and care providers part...

Patient-centred care is a key priority for governments, providers and stakeholders, yet little is known about the care preferences of patient groups. We completed a scoping review that yielded 193 articles for analysis. Five health states were used to account for the diversity of possible preferences based on health needs. Five broad themes were id...

Patient-centred care is currently a priority area of inquiry among researchers, decision-makers, and health system planners. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of ensuring health and social care services are delivered to users in a meaningful and effective manner that meets their needs and preferences. In order for patient-centred...

Virtual care is increasingly recognized as a vital component of high-quality healthcare and may hold promise in strengthening access to primary care in northern, rural, and remote areas of Canada. In Canada, as seen around the world, the adoption of virtual care has accelerated as part of health system responses to COVID-19. Though the northern, ru...

Delayed discharge, also known as alternate level of care (ALC), is a longstanding challenge facing health systems globally. In Canada, ALC is a designation used to identify “patients that are receiving care in a setting where the intensity and type of care offered is no longer appropriate for their current needs.” According to the Canadian Institut...

Introduction: Person-centered integrated care (PC-IC) is a concept combining person-centeredness and integrated care to better improve care for people with complex health and social needs. The World Health Organization describes PC-IC as “health services that are managed and delivered in a way so that patients receive both preventive and curative s...

Introduction: Recently, there has been a paradigm shift in healthcare that calls for positioning patients as active partners in healthcare rather than passive recipients. This active partnership is even more evident with patients who live with multiple chronic diseases because with time, these patients become experts in their own bodies, symptoms a...

Providing care for increasingly medically and socially complex populations is a well-recognized challenge that necessitates coordinating services across multiple sectors and organizations. There is a need to re-organize how care is delivered to align with coordination efforts, in the form of inter-organizational networks. However, substantial gaps...