Continuity of Care: "It Is About Connecting"

Forecasting: it is not about statistics, it is about dynamics.

In 1963, the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz published a paper (Lorenz 1963 J. Atmos. Sci. 20, 130-141) that changed the way scientists think about the prediction of geophysical systems, by introducing the ideas of chaos, attractors, sensitivity to initial conditions and the limitations to forecasting nonlinear systems. Three years earlier, the mathematician and engineer Rudolf Ka...

Advance care planning is not about "getting it right".

Continuity of care is very important.

Patient satisfaction is itself a major patient outcome, not something separate. Prospective randomised trials in this field can be unethical, so that much of the available evidence is observational. However, two randomised controlled trials have been done and both were positive for continuity of care.2,3 Numerous international studies reveal that continuity of generalist care is significantly a...

Continuity of care of diabetic patients in a family practice clinic: How important is it?

Aim : To assess the importance of continuity of care among diabetic patients attending a primary care clinic and to correlate degree of continuity of care with diabetic control. Methods : A cross sectional survey was carried out among diabetic patients ( n = 166) attending followup consultations in a family practice clinic of a teaching hospital. Face-to-face interviews were carried out on pati...

Epigenetics: What it is about?

Epigenetics has captured the attention of scientists in the past decades, yet its scope has been continuously changing. In this paper, we give an overview on how and why its definition has evolved and suggest several clarification on the concepts used in this field. Waddington coined the term in 1942 to describe genes interaction with each other and with their environment and insisted on dissoc...