BACKGROUND A growing number of health care providers are nowadays involved in heart failure care. This could lead to discontinuity and fragmentation of care, thus reducing trust and hence poorer medication adherence. This study aims to explore heart failure patients' experiences with continuity of care, and its relation to medication adherence. METHODS We collected data from 327 primary care ...

Continuity of care, defined as the patient experiencing coherent care over time and place, is challenged when a rural senior with multiple medical problems is transferred to a regional hospital for acute care. From an illustrative case of an older patient with pneumonia and atrial fibrillation, we catalogue potential breaks in continuity of care. Optimal continuity of care is characterised not ...

(2021). Continuity and Consolidation. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- Transdisciplinarity: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1-3.