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Continuity of Care Matters in All Health Care Settings.
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 decrease in primary care physicians, changes in health insurance, the growth of
J. Goodwin
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Impact of relational continuity of primary care in aged care: a systematic review
Background Greater continuity of care has been associated with lower hospital admissions and patient mortality. This systematic review aims to examine the impact of relational continuity between primary care professionals and older people receiving aged ...
S. Dyer +9 more
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Assessing patients' experience of integrated care: a survey of patient views in the North West London Integrated Care Pilot [PDF]
Despite the importance of continuity of care and patient engagement, few studies have captured patients' views on integrated care. This study assesses patient experience in the Integrated Care Pilot in North West London with the aim to help clinicians ...
Car, Josip +5 more
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BackgroundMany consider that cancer has the greatest impact of any disease in the world, and it can drastically limit patients’ quality of life.
Giuseppina Campisi +9 more
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Transition to adult services for children and young people with palliative care needs : a systematic review [PDF]
Objective: To evaluate the evidence on the transition process from child to adult services for young people with palliative care needs. Design: Systematic review Setting: Child and adult services and interface between healthcare providers.
Adi, Y. +6 more
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Prognostic significance of diabetes and stress hyperglycemia in acute stroke patients
Background Hyperglycemic non-diabetic stroke patients have a worse prognosis than both normoglycemic and diabetic patients. Aim of this study was to assess whether hyperglycemia is an aggravating factor or just an epiphenomenon of most severe strokes ...
Antonio Muscari +8 more
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I read with interest the views of James Willis1 on the need for continuity of care: it is certainly an area where there should be increasing debate in what is otherwise an age of increasing fragmentation of medical care. I think it is important to remember that when a diagnosis is made and a care plan agreed on, it is exactly that, a plan that is ...
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Background Hip fracture is an important and prevalent medical condition associated with adverse outcomes. The aim of this article is to systematically review and summarise the predictors of poor functional outcomes and mortality for patients with hip ...
Bang Yu Xu +4 more
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Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care? [PDF]
The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care.
Barrett, Patrick +2 more
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Treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Heart failure, in its diverse forms based on the value of the ejection fraction, is associated to high mortality and the frequent need for hospitalization, with a consequent heavy burden on healthcare resources.
Alfredo Monteverde +4 more
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