A comparison is made of existing measures of provider continuity in ambulatory care to
assess differences and limitations. New measures are proposed that complement and …

Background A system for managing chronic disease including diabetes mellitus based on
primary care clinics has been used in Korea since April 2012. This system can reduce …

Background Continuity of care is widely acknowledged as important for patients with multi-
morbidity but simple, service-orientated indices cannot capture the full impact of continuity in …

Importance Both the overuse of unnecessary medical procedures and poor continuity of care
are thought to contribute to high health care spending and poor patient outcomes. Objective …

Background Continuity of care is a well-recognized principle of the primary care discipline
owing to its medical, interpersonal, and cost-saving benefits. Relationship continuity or the …

Background Recently, the Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire (NCQ) was developed. It aims
to measure continuity of care from the patient perspective across primary and secondary …

Continuity of care has been defined as seeing the same health care provider over time, and
has been shown to be associated with positive health outcomes, high quality care, high …

There is widespread interest in assessing care coordination to improve overall care quality.
We evaluated a five-item measure of care coordination included in the 2012 Consumer …

Objective To identify factors associated with perception of care coordination problems
among chronically ill patients. Methods Patient‐level data were obtained from a random …

Very few useful measures of service functioning are as yet available for the evaluation of
mental health services. Continuity of care has been identified as “the strategic first choice” …