BACKGROUND Existing studies about continuity of care focus on patients with a severe mental illness. OBJECTIVES Explore the level of experienced continuity of care of patients at risk for depression in primary care, and compare these to those of patients with heart failure. METHODS Explorative study comparing patients at risk for depression with chronic heart failure patients. Continuity of...

BACKGROUND Korea's rapidly aging population has led to a rise in the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis (which reached upwards of 21.3% in 2017) in elderly people aged 65 years and over. Most patients with knee osteoarthritis require ongoing management in the community or through primary care. Continuity of care is a desirable attribute of primary care. However, previous studies on the associati...

BACKGROUND The study goal was to assess indices of continuity of care in the primary care setting and their association with health outcomes and healthcare services utilization, given the reported importance of continuity regarding quality of care and healthcare utilization. METHODS The study included a random sample of enrollees from Clalit Health Services 19 years-of-age or older who visite...

In normed linear space settings, modifying the sequential definition of continuity of an operator by replacing the usual limit "lim" with arbitrary linear regular summability methods G we consider the notion of a generalized continuity ((G1,G2)-continuity) and examine some of its consequences in respect of usual continuity and linearity of the operators between two normed linear spaces.

This paper proposes “MobileSocket” which realizes session layer communication continuity support for Java Applications towards the continuous operations for mobile applications. In the mobile computing environment where mobile hosts moves around the network even during applications are communicating with the remote, maintenance of the communication continuity between the applications is signifi...

Many studies have been done on superposition operators and non-Newtonian calculus from past to present. Sağır Erdoğan defined Non-Newtonian characterized them some sequence spaces. Also they examined *- boundedness *-locally of c0,α cα l1,β. In this study, we define *-continuity *-uniform continuity operator. We proved that the necessary sufficient conditions for operator Then relationship betw...

Continuity from a qualitative perspective is different from both the philosophical and mathematical view of continuity. We explore different intuitive notions of spatio-temporal continuity. We present a general formal framework for continuity and continuous transitions in mereotopology for spatio-temporal histories and thus sketch the correctness of the conceptual neighbourhood for the qualitat...

Further properties of the almost continuous function are given in this paper. The concept of semi-boundary of a set is introduced and is used to give a sufficient condition for continuity which involves almost continuity. Using expansion of open sets, it is shown that continuity can be decomposed with almost continuity as a factor.

OBJECTIVE To compare immigrants' and natives' perceptions of relational, managerial and informational continuity of care and to explore the influence of the length of stay on immigrants' perceptions of continuity. METHODS Cross-sectional study based on a survey of a random sample of 1,500 patients, of which 22% (331) were immigrants. The study area was made up by three healthcare areas of the...