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 Continuity of care among different clinicians refers to consistent and coherent
care management and good measures are needed. We conducted a metasummary of …

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 …

Background Continuity of care is widely acknowledged as a core value in family medicine. In
this systematic review, we aimed to identify the instruments measuring continuity of care and …

Background Continuity is a fundamental tenet of primary care, and highly valued by patients;
it may also improve patient outcomes and lower cost of health care. It is thus important to …

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

Results: most responses to the PCAs, PCAT-s and CPCI subscales were positive, yet 83% of
respondents reported having one or more problems on the vANOCss Overall Coordination …

The operational definition of relational continuity is “a therapeutic relationship between a
patient and one or more providers that spans various healthcare events and results in …

Method We used the data from a research project on the development and validation of a
generic and comprehensive continuity measurement instrument that can be applied to a …

BACKGROUND In an effort to learn more about the importance of continuity of care to
physicians and patients, I reviewed the medical literature on continuity of care to define …