BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although continuity of care has been found to be associated with improved health outcomes in children, little is known about what factors predict having consistent contact with a pediatric provider. This study explored what patient, family, provider, and system factors are associated with high continuity of both total and well-child care. METHODS This cross-sectional...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we study the Hölder continuity of solution mapping to a parametric variational inequality‎. ‎At first‎, ‎recalling a real-valued gap function of the problem‎, ‎we discuss the Lipschitz continuity of the gap function‎. ‎Then under the strong monotonicity‎, ‎we establish the Hölder continuity of the single-valued solution mapping for the problem‎. ‎Finally‎, ‎we apply these resu...

BACKGROUND The relationship between continuity of care and user characteristics or outcomes has rarely been explored. The ECHO study operationalized and tested a multi-axial definition of continuity of care, producing a seven-factor model used here. AIMS To assess the relationship between user characteristics and established components of continuity of care, and the impact of continuity on cl...

OBJECTIVE Continuity of care is considered foundational to high-quality care. Traditional continuity of care constructs may adequately characterize care quality in general populations, but may merit reconceptualization for patients with multiple chronic conditions. Specifically, interactions between multiple chronic condition patients and providers involve complex medication management; therefo...

In this paper, a new definition of bounded fuzzy linear orderhomomorphism on $I$-topological vector spaces is introduced. Thisdefinition differs from the definition of Fang [The continuity offuzzy linear order-homomorphism. J. Fuzzy Math. {bf5}textbf{(4)}(1997), 829--838]. We show that the ``boundedness"and `` boundedness on each layer" of fuzzy linear orderhomomorphisms do not imply each other...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal generalist preceptorship experiences early in medical education can have beneficial effects on how students practise the art and science of medicine, regardless of their eventual career choices. DESCRIPTION We evaluated the first 2 years of implementation of an integrated, regional campus-based, early clinical experience programme, the Community Continuity Program, at ...

This paper investigates the existence of pure strategy, dominant strategy, and mixed strategy Nash equilibria in discontinuous and/or nonconvex games. We introduce a new notion of very weak continuity, called weak transfer quasi-continuity, which is weaker than the most known weak notions of continuity, including diagonal transfer continuity in Baye et al. [1993] and better-reply security in Re...

Objective: to gain an understanding of how women conceptualise continuity of maternity care. Design: a qualitative study involving in-depth semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. Setting: a range of urban and rural public hospitals in New South Wales, Australia. Participants: 53 women aged 18-44 years (median age 27 years) receiving maternity care in 2011 2012. Findings: responses fr...

BACKGROUND Continuity of care can bring a wide range of benefits to consumers, providers and health care systems. This study aimed to understand the relationship preferences of primary care patients and their associations with patient experience of continuity of care. METHODS A questionnaire survey was conducted on 700 patients who sought medical care from a community health organisation in B...