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Table 5 Identified interfaces

From: Modular health services: a single case study approach to the applicability of modularity to residential mental healthcare

Interacting objects

  

Modules

People

Aim

Variety

Substitution interfaces

Information guiding interfaces

Barely present; only overview of day care modules

• Meetings with every change of shifts

• Care provider meetings three times/week

• Six-weekly care team meetings

• Six-weekly general policy meetings

 • Care package evaluation conversations

 • Regular conversations with patients

Coherence

Arrangement interfaces

Information rationalising interfaces

 • Strict planning rules regarding medication and some physical screenings

 • Electronic patient file

 • Agenda used for all appointments

 • Residential care plan

 • Work schedule for some care modules

 • Work division

• Clear lines of communication