Creating Integrated Care: Evaluation and Management of Local Care in Sweden

It seems impossible to create a comprehensive evaluation model which fully takes into account the multi-dimensional context of integrated health and social care. Clinical integration, as a prerequisite for efficient outcomes of integration, must nonetheless get special attention. For more extensive evaluations, a quality chain matrix, including co-operating acts by different providers, has proven to be useful. Examples of evaluated services in Sweden are given, and the management benefits of the use of evaluation data are highlighted.