For better serving people's complex needs the subsequent movement to
person-centered integrated care, requires inter-organizational
cooperation and service provision by domain-overarching networks and
alliances. In the development to these networks, it is relevant to
explore which accountability approaches are appropriate for local
inter-organizational healthcare governance. Therefore, in a scoping
review we studied the current state of knowledge and practice of
accountability in healthcare in the Netherlands. We found that two of
the included 41 studies show characteristics of accountability towards
healthcare with characteristics of integration care components, such as
integration of services with accompanying accountability arrangements
and development of networked accountability. The first studies are found
in the literature which report on accountability in integrated care.
With this we add to the international discussion about accountability as
an aspect of integrated care governance, by providing insight into the
current state of art of accountability in Dutch healthcare.