"A function that helps ensure that the patient's needs and preferences are met over time with respect to health services and information sharing across people, functions, and sites, and the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient's care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services. The best care coordination model is one in which a patient experiences primary care as delivered by an integrated, multidisciplinary team that explicitly includes at least one staff care coordinator"(Camica, et al., 2013, pp. 490-491).
Camicia, M., Chamberlain, B., Finnie, R.R., Nalle, M. Lindeke, LL., Lorenz, L., McMenamin, P. (2013). The value of nursing coordination. A white paper of the American Nurses Association, Nursing Outlook, 61 (6), 495-500.