Letter: On continuity of care.

Continuity of Care

The American Academy of Family Physicians defines continuity of care as “the process by which the patient and his/her physician-led care team are cooperatively involved in ongoing health care management toward the shared goal of high-quality, cost-effective medical care.” Haggerty et al. identified three types of continuity in every discipline: informational, management, and relational. Informa...

Continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic: a letter to editor

Looking back: continuity of care.

A few numbers Between 1996 and the present, there were increases in CFPC membership from 13 000 to 28 000; staff from 65 to 140; the annual operating budget from $10 million to $40 million; the number of first-year residents entering family medicine each year from 475 to 1300; the proportion of medical school graduates selecting family medicine as their first choice from a low of 23% in 2003 to...

Continuity of care in general practice: effect on patient satisfaction.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of continuity of care on patient satisfaction with consultations. DESIGN Direct and episodic specific evaluation of patient satisfaction with recent consultation. SETTING AND SUBJECTS A representative sample of 3918 Norwegian primary care patients were asked to evaluate their consultations by filling in a questionnaire. The response rate was 78%. MAIN O...

First-year medical students' perspectives on continuity of care.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The objective of this research was to obtain and describe medical students' perspectives about continuity of care while they are participating in a preclinical practice-based preceptorship. METHODS Within the context of a preclinical preceptorship, students completed directed readings, conducted patient and physician interviews, and wrote reflections about continuity...