SynthesisThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2008
The nature of informational continuity of care in general practice.
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- Pooled it
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- Patients', carers' and healthcare providers' views of patient-held health records in Kerala, India: A qualitative exploratory study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Article
- Association between continuity of care (COC), healthcare use and costs: what can we learn from claims data? A rapid review.BMC health services research · 2022Review
- Exploring Factors Affecting Health Care Providers' Behaviors for Maintaining Continuity of Care in Kerala, India; A Qualitative Analysis Using the Theoretical Domains Framework.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Association of Continuity of General Practitioner Care with Utilisation of General Practitioner and Specialist Services in China: A Mixed-Method Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The role of personalised professional relations across care sectors in achieving high continuity of care.BMC family practice · 2021Observational
- Health information exchange for patients with intellectual disabilities: a general practice perspective.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2016Article
- Decreasing trends in patient satisfaction, accessibility and continuity of care in Finnish primary health care - a 14-year follow-up questionnaire study.BMC family practice · 2014Article
- The languages of health in general practice electronic patient records: a Zipf's law analysis.Journal of biomedical semantics · 2014Article
- Chronically ill Canadians' experiences of being unattached to a family doctor: a qualitative study of marginalized patients in British Columbia.BMC family practice · 2012Article
- Continuity of care: differing conceptions and values.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2011Article
- Health Care Utilization After a Visit to a Within-Group Family Physician vs a Walk-In Clinic Physician.Annals of family medicineArticle
- Mind the Gaps: A Qualitative Study Combining Patients' and Nurses' Reflections on Pain Care.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe availability of patient information to practitioners forms the basis of informational continuity of care. Changes in family practice that now encourage multiphysician clinics have meant that informational continuity of care has become crucial because it is likely that a patient will not continuously see the same doctor. Therefore a review of the nature of informational continuity is useful.
aimTo answer the question 'How is informational continuity developed in general practice?'. DESIGN OF STUDY: A rigorous systematic review of relevant electronic databases.
methodDatabases were searched for articles answering the research question. Articles focused on family medicine and informational continuity of care were included. Data from reviewed articles were independently extracted and reviewed by two researchers. Conceptual and evidence-based articles were included.
resultsInitially, 193 articles were obtained from all five bibliographic databases; 57 were retained following title and abstract review. Of these, 34 articles were included in the final systematic review. Results show that informational continuity of care is developed using paper/electronic records and remembered information collectively, through a series of doctor-patient consultations over time. Obstacles to its development are practitioners not recording patient information and patients not disclosing important details.
conclusionThese findings have implications for newer styles of primary care that may have a negative impact in the successful management of chronic illnesses in particular.
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