BACKGROUND Continuity of care refers to the ongoing management of a patient's care over time and across practitioners, and the patient's experience of this care as coherent and consistent with their medical needs and context. Continuity of cardiac care is integral to secondary prevention and improved health outcomes. DESIGN This study examined patient perceptions of continuity, and how they r...

Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the relationships between anxiety sensitivity (AS), irritability and intrusive thoughts (IT) and sleep problems in patients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Methods: The study population consisted of all patients with GAD who referred to counseling and psychological centers in Isfahan, Iran, in 2015. A total of 49 patients wer...

The paper gives a brief account of the spaces of interval functions defined through the concepts of H-continuity, D-continuity and S-continuity. All three continuity concepts generalize the usual concept of continuity for real (point valued) functions. The properties of the functions in these new spaces are discussed and investigated, preserving essential properties of the usual continuous real...

This perspective paper makes a brief conceptual review of continuity and argues that relationship continuity is the most controversial type. Plentiful evidence of association with better satisfaction and outcomes urgently needs to be supplemented by studies of causation. The scope of these has been outlined in this paper. Evidence strongly suggests that patients generally want more relationship...

Continuity of care is generally considered beneficial in primary healthcare, and in this paper the evidence for such assumptions is examined. Studies and reviews showed that continuity of care is able to decrease unnecessary hospitalisation, length of hospital stay and attendance at Accident and Emergency departments, as well as improve patient and doctor experience. It has also been found that...

PURPOSE In a primary care context favoring group practices, we assessed the validity of 2 new continuity measures (both versions of known provider continuity, KPC) that capture the concentration of care over time from multiple physicians (multiple provider continuity, KPC-MP) or from the physician seen most often (personal provider continuity, KPC-PP). METHODS Patients with diabetes or cardio...

In this paper, by using mg∗-closed sets [23], we define and investigate the notion of mg∗-continuity which is a generalization of ω-continuity [32] or ĝ-continuity [35].

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...

The continuity of care received by 128 patients in four Bristol group practices over a two-year period was measured. A high standard of continuity of care was found for many patients, even though they were registered with large training practices. Patients registered with practices operating personal lists received much better continuity of care than those registered with practices operating co...

3 Cont: Continuity and monotonicity 18 3.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.2 Equivalence of alternate definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.3 Collection of continuity rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.4 Continuity of basic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.5 Finite chains and flat pcpos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...