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...

BACKGROUND Despite the importance of continuity of care after detoxification and residential treatment, many clients do not receive further treatment services after discharged. This study examined whether offering financial incentives and providing client-specific electronic reminders to treatment agencies lead to improved continuity of care after detoxification or residential treatment. METH...

PURPOSE We determined the reported value general practitioners/family physicians in 3 different health care systems place on the various types of continuity of care. METHODS We conducted a postal questionnaire survey in England and Wales, the United States, and The Netherlands. The participants were 1,523 general practitioners/family physicians (568 from England and Wales, 453 from the United...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the patients' opinion on the usefulness of the electronic medical card (EMC) and continuity-of-care report in enhancing quality of care, and to assess the effects of the patient-entered data on the quality of data in the electronic medical record (EMR). DESIGN A structured survey assessed patients' opinion on the usefulness of the EMC and continuity-of-care report. The a...

BACKGROUND Central to establishing continuity of care is the development of a relationship between doctor and patient/caregiver. Transfer of information between these parties facilitates the development of continuity in general; and specifically informational continuity of care. We conducted a systematic review of published literature to gain a better understanding of the roles that different p...

Recent changes in the organisation of primary health care have increased the range of professionals that patients may encounter, leading to renewed interest in the importance of continuity of care. To assess whether organisational changes have had an impact on continuity, it is necessary to define and measure the term. Researchers seeking to assess continuity face many conceptual and practical ...

Aim : To assess the importance of continuity of care among diabetic patients attending a primary care clinic and to correlate degree of continuity of care with diabetic control. Methods : A cross sectional survey was carried out among diabetic patients ( n = 166) attending followup consultations in a family practice clinic of a teaching hospital. Face-to-face interviews were carried out on pati...

Transfer of patients from the cardiac intensive care unit to the general ward, is one of the main reasons for anxiety. Given that the transfer anxiety may be due to receive at least, inconsistent or do not receive enough information before the patients leaving the intensive care unit, Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of information provision on anxiety levels in patients tran...