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Coordinating Care — A Perilous Journey through the Health Care System

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  • Thomas Bodenheimer, M.D.

Patients with chronic illness often receive care from multiple providers in multiple settings and require coordination of their complex care. This report assesses the quality of the coordination of care, describes barriers to coordinated care, and discusses some solutions to improve care coordination in the United States.

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Funding and Disclosures

This report was adapted from the Kimball Lecture presented to the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation at its 2007 conference on care coordination, with additional material based on panel presentations and participants' discussions at the conference.

No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

Author Affiliations

From the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco.

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