ArticleHealth services research and managerial epidemiology
Primary Care Provider Continuity Is Associated With Improved Preventive Service Ordering During Brief Visits for Acute Symptoms.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Association between continuity of care and detection of hypertension in Dutch general practice: a 10-year cohort study.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Continuity of Care: A Primer for Family Medicine Residencies.Family medicine · 2024Review
- Patient Provider Continuity and Prostate Specific Antigen Testing: Impact of Continuity on Receipt of a Non-recommended Test.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
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- Personal Continuity and Appropriate Prescribing in Primary Care.Annals of family medicineObservational
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Abstract
backgroundIf a patient presents for an acute care visit and sees their assigned primary care provider (PCP), they may be more likely to receive preventive and other services than a patient not seeing their assigned PCP.
methodsAfter exclusion of 2 visits with insufficient information, we reviewed 98 consecutive, outpatient internal medicine 15-minute acute care visits comparing patients seeing their assigned PCP with those seeing a non-PCP provider. The primary outcome, preventive service ordering, was measured in 2 ways: percentage of patient visits with
resultsThe PCPs were significantly more likely than non-PCPs to order any preventive service 45% versus 17% (
conclusionPatients seeing their assigned PCP in brief, acute visits have higher rates of preventive and other service ordering compared to those not seeing their assigned PCP.
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