Integrated birth care: a Triple Aim: Quality of birth centre care in the Netherlands

Growing demand for health services, fragmentation of services, changing health needs, and increasing influence of economic, political and social factors on health care delivery are steering policymakers to “integrated care” as a way to reduce costs, improve quality of care, and generate better patient outcomes. Birth centres are considered to be ideal settings for the realization of integrated care in the Dutch maternity care system and are assumed to offer better quality of care. Although evidence is available on the effectiveness of integrated care in chronic care, until now, there is no evi... Mehr ...