Evaluating and reducing various risks is a part of the corporations and organizations policies, any economic and non-economic entity must inevitably pay particular attention to the stage after the crisis in order to lead the organization's missions, carry out missions of the organization, and to reduce the costs and expenses of the various crises. A closer look can be said that the management s...

BACKGROUND One major goal of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is to improve continuity of care between patients and providers and reduce the utilization of non-primary care services like the emergency department (ED). OBJECTIVE To characterize continuity under the Veterans Health Administration's PCMH model--the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT), at one large Veterans Affair's (VA's) p...

PURPOSE The health system shift from doctor-patient continuity of care to team-based continuity may not match patients' preferences. This article reviews the existing medical literature regarding patients' perceptions of interpersonal continuity of care to determine which patients value interpersonal continuity and in what context. METHODS A search of the ISI Web of Knowledge database from 19...

BACKGROUND Continuity of care (COC) has received attention over the past decade. COC has also become increasingly important for hospital managers and policy makers because of competitive health care market conditions. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between hospital charges and patients' continuity of care-assessed by three indices of continuity of care-among outpatients...

We investigate the features people use in making inferences about continuity of individual persons. Using a transformation paradigm, we show that people weigh both continuity of the brain and continuity of mental content. Across experiments, we document instances in which participants are more likely to assert individual continuity than continuity of personhood. We discuss these results in term...

In this paper, we introduce soft complete continuity as a strong form of and continuity. Several characterizations, compositions, restriction theorems are obtained. Moreover, several preservation regarding compactness, Lindelofness, connectedness, regularity, normality, almost mild near paracompactness, metacompactness addition to these, the study deals with correlation between our new concepts...

BACKGROUND Continuity of care is widely acknowledged as a core value in family medicine. In this systematic review, we aimed to identify the instruments measuring continuity of care and to assess the quality of their measurement properties. METHODS We did a systematic review using the PubMed, Embase and PsycINFO databases, with an extensive search strategy including 'continuity of care', 'coo...