Background: Assessing care continuity is important in evaluating the impact of health care
reform and changes to health care delivery. Multiple measures of care continuity have been …

Continuity of care (CoC) is a cornerstone of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) and
one of the primary means for achieving health care quality. Despite decades of study …

Importance Better continuity of care is expected to improve patient outcomes and reduce
health care costs, but patterns of use, costs, and clinical complications associated with the …

Background Continuity of medical care is widely believed to lead to better health outcomes
and service utilization patterns for patients. Most continuity studies, however, have only used …

Continuity of care is a frequently used concept without a commonly accepted definition.
Proposed measures reflect different aspects of continuity, the concentration-of-care aspect …

Background The study goal was to assess indices of continuity of care in the primary care
setting and their association with health outcomes and healthcare services utilization, given …

OBJECTIVE: To develop and pilot test a generic questionnaire to measure continuity of care
from the patient's perspective across primary and secondary care settings. STUDY DESIGN …

PURPOSE Patients who regularly see more than one clinician for health problems risk
discontinuity and fragmented care. Our objective was to develop and validate a generic …

PURPOSE Care coordination is increasingly recognized as a necessary element of high-
quality, patient-centered care. This study investigated (1) the association between care …

Background The CCAENA questionnaire was developed to assess care continuity across
levels from the patients' perspective. The aim is to provide additional evidence on the …