Concern regarding declining continuity of medical care has been growing during the past 3
decades. Continuity of care has been threatened by an array of forces, including the …

A key tenet of primary care is that continuity of care is central to the patient-physician
relationship. Long revered but seldom studied, continuity of care has in the past been …

Continuity of care is one of the fundamental building blocks of high-performing primary
care1 and is associated with improved preventive and chronic care services, patient and …

Improving care coordination has emerged as a key strategy of many payers and
policymakers for enhancing the quality and lowering the costs of health care in the United …

BACKGROUND: Little is known about how changes in health care delivery, such as the use
of hospitalists, have impacted inpatient continuity. OBJECTIVE: To examine the extent of …

Modern primary medical care is becoming more complex and challenging every day as the
population ages and practices become more and more dominated by older patients who …

PURPOSE Continuity of care is broadly associated with better patient health outcomes. The
relative contributions of continuity with an individual physician and with a practice, however …

Context Little is known about the extent of continuity of care across the transition from
outpatient care to hospitalization. Objectives To describe continuity of care in older …

In 1948, LIFE magazine published the “Country Doctor”(http://time. com/3456085/w-eugene-
smiths-landmark-photo-essay-country-doctor/), the photographic essay by W. Eugene Smith …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Achieving patient–physician continuity is difficult in the
inpatient setting, where care must be provided continuously. Little is known about the impact …