This study explores the reliability of a data source on the quality and content of care rarely
used in studies comparing the performance of health care organizations, that is, patient …

BackgroundContinuity of care is considered by patients and clinicians an essential feature of
good quality care in long-term disorders, yet there is general agreement that it is a complex …

OBJECTIVE: To develop and test a new outcome measure, Conditional Length of Stay
(CLOS), to assess hospital performance when deaths are rare and complication data are not …

BACKGROUND: Since hospitalist physicians do not frequently see patients in follow‐up
after discharge from the hospital, patient continuity of care will decrease. To determine how …

Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine the association between
longitudinal continuity of care (CoC) in Swedish primary care (PC) and emergency services …

What Factors Are Associated With Achieving High Continuity of Care? Page 1 55 Vol. 36, No.
1 Continuity is a core component of the Institute of Medicine’s definition of primary care.Continuity …

Objectives. The aims of this research were to generate a set of time‐variant measures of
continuity of outpatient care using administrative data, and to evaluate the validity of these …

Objective Continuity of care is a long-standing feature of healthcare, especially of general
practice. It is associated with increased patient satisfaction, increased take-up of health …

Continuity of care is defined and measured in tenns of care received from a single physician,
from several physicians practicing as a group and from physicians seen through referrals. All …

Background Studies find that primary care physician (PCP) visit continuity is positively
associated with care quality. Some of the evidence base, however, relies on patient-reported …