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 ...

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...

BACKGROUND This evidence-based analysis reviews relational and management continuity of care. Relational continuity refers to the duration and quality of the relationship between the care provider and the patient. Management continuity ensures that patients receive coherent, complementary, and timely care. There are 4 components of continuity of care: duration, density, dispersion, and sequence...

the aim of this paper is to show how some measures of noncompactness in the banach space of continuous functions defined on two variables can be applied to the solvability of a general system of functional integral equations . the results obtained generalize and extend several equations . an illustrative example is also presented .

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...

BACKGROUND Continuity is a fundamental tenet of primary care, and highly valued by patients; it may also improve patient outcomes and lower cost of health care. It is thus important to investigate factors that predict higher continuity. However, to date, little is known about the factors that contribute to continuity. The purpose of this study was to analyse practice, provider and patient predi...

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...

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...

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 ...

BACKGROUND New care modes in primary care may affect patients' experienced continuity of care. AIM To analyse whether experienced continuity for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) changes after different care modes are introduced, and to analyse the relationship between continuity of care and patients' quality of life. DESIGN AND SETTING Randomised controlled trial ...