Continuity-of-Care Measures
Random Assignment of Patients to Providers and the Impact of Utilization Level
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9096440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Anders Eriksson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180-190 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-199002000-00009 |
| PMID | 2299896 |
| OpenAlex | W1980280790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
For a long period of time, continuity of care has been recognized as a major aspect of the quality of primary health care. Some scholars operate with comprehensive notions of continuity encompassing a variety of dimensions of primary care (see, for example, Wall1 and further references in that paper). Another line of research, represented by Steinwachs,2 Eriksson and Mattsson,3 and others, focuses on design and assessment of quantitative measures of various dimensions of continuity. The latter approach views continuity as an intermediate variable, lying between a set of potential determinants (medical, socioeconomic, and, notably, policy variables) and a potential positive or negative effect (e.g., better patient compliance with prescriptions, or delayed referral in certain cases). Typically, stressing determinants of continuity would be appropriate for evaluations (such as that by Mattsson and Westman4) of administrative reform. Such evaluative use of measures of continuity could be based on adopting continuity as a policy goal per se. This is not unreasonable in situations like the Swedish context, in which attitude surveys report a keen public interest in continuity of care.5 Alternatively, it could be based on empiric studies linking high conti
Context (archaeology) · Continuity of care · Environmental health · Health care · Medical prescription · Political science · Quality (philosophy) · Referral · Set (abstract data type) · Socioeconomic status · Statistics · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Healthcare Policy and Management · Healthcare Systems and Technology · Mathematics · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
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| Citation span | 1997 - 1997 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |