TY - JOUR
KW - Community Networks/organization & administration
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/organization & administration
KW - Health Services Research
KW - Humans
KW - Interinstitutional Relations
KW - Interviews as Topic
KW - Models, Organizational
KW - Netherlands/epidemiology
KW - Obstetrics/methods/organization & administration
KW - Organizational Case Studies
KW - Perinatal Mortality/trends
KW - Quality Improvement
KW - Risk Assessment
AU - A. Pieters
AU - H. Akkermans
AU - A. Franx
A1 - 
AB - This chapter reports on an action research case study of integrated obstetric care in the Netherlands. Efficient and patient-friendly patient flows through integrated care networks are of major societal importance. How to design and develop such interorganizational patient flows is still a nascent research area, especially when dealing with a large number (n>3) of stakeholders. We have shown that a modification of an existing method to support interorganizational collaboration by system dynamics-based group model building (GMB) (the Renga method, Akkermans, 2001) may be effective in achieving such collaboration.
BT - Advances in health care management
C5 - HIT & Telehealth
CY - Netherlands
JF - Advances in health care management
N2 - This chapter reports on an action research case study of integrated obstetric care in the Netherlands. Efficient and patient-friendly patient flows through integrated care networks are of major societal importance. How to design and develop such interorganizational patient flows is still a nascent research area, especially when dealing with a large number (n>3) of stakeholders. We have shown that a modification of an existing method to support interorganizational collaboration by system dynamics-based group model building (GMB) (the Renga method, Akkermans, 2001) may be effective in achieving such collaboration.
PP - Netherlands
PY - 2011
SN - 1474-8231; 1474-8231
SP - 321
EP - 344
EP - 
T1 - E pluribus unum: using group model building with many interdependent organizations to create integrated health-care networks
T2 - Advances in health care management
TI - E pluribus unum: using group model building with many interdependent organizations to create integrated health-care networks
U1 - HIT & Telehealth
U2 - 21887953
VL - 10
VO - 1474-8231; 1474-8231
Y1 - 2011
ER -