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Essential elements for comprehensive care

The Commission has identified a set of six essential elements for comprehensive care delivery, which represent different stages or processes that a patient may experience when clinical care is delivered in alignment with the Comprehensive Care Standard.

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Six elements of comprehensive care delivery

The conceptual model provides an organisational perspective of comprehensive care, and the essential elements for comprehensive care delivery integrate these organisational pre-requisites with the clinical processes required to care for individual patients.

The essential elements are:

How the elements interact

The figure shows how these six elements interact:

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These elements are described in detail in:

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