Observational studyFamily practice2022
Continuity of care for patients with chronic disease: a registry-based observational study from Norway.
Observational study in Family practice, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Continuity of Primary Care in Community Health Centers.Annals of family medicine · 2026Article
- Relationship between continuity of primary care and hospitalisation for patients with COPD: population-based cohort study from South Korea.BMJ open respiratory research · 2024Article
- Norwegian general practitioners' perceptions of their depression care - a national survey.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Continuity and breaches in GP care and their associations with mortality for patients with chronic disease: an observational study using Norwegian registry data.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024Observational
- Continuity of primary care for type 2 diabetes and hypertension and its association with health outcomes and disease control: insights from Central Vietnam.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Continuity of care and mortality for patients with chronic disease: an observational study using Norwegian registry data.Family practice · 2023Observational
- Team-based continuity of care for patients with hypertension: a retrospective primary care cohort study in Hong Kong.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023Article
- The associations of continuity of care with inpatient, outpatient, and total medical care costs among older adults with urinary incontinence.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Continuity of care in primary healthcare settings among patients with chronic diseases in Saudi Arabia.SAGE open medicine · 2023Article
- Consultation rates in people with type 2 diabetes with and without vascular complications: a retrospective analysis of 141,328 adults in England.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2022Observational
- Personal continuity of GP care and outpatient specialist visits in people with type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional survey.PloS one · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundContinuity of care (CoC) is accepted as a core value of primary care and is especially appreciated by patients with chronic conditions. Nevertheless, there are few studies investigating CoC for these patients across levels of healthcare.
objectiveThis study aims to investigate CoC for patients with somatic chronic diseases, both with regular general practitioners (RGPs) and across care levels.
methodsWe conducted a registry-based observational study by using nationwide consultation data from Norwegian general practices, out-of-hours services, hospital outpatient care, and private specialists with public contracts. Patients with diabetes mellitus (type I or II), asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or heart failure in 2012, who had ≥2 consultations with these diagnoses during 2014 were included. CoC was measured during 2014 by using the usual provider of care (UPC) index and Bice-Boxerman continuity of care score (COCI). Both indices have a value between 0 and 1.
resultsPatients with diabetes mellitus comprised the largest study population (N = 79,165) and heart failure the smallest (N = 4,122). The highest mean UPC and COCI were measured for patients with heart failure, 0.75 and 0.77, respectively. UPC increased gradually with age for all diagnoses, while COCI showed this trend only for asthma. Both indices had higher values in urban areas.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that CoC in Norwegian healthcare system is achieved for a majority of patients with chronic diseases. Patients with heart failure had the highest continuity with their RGP. Higher CoC was associated with older age and living in urban areas.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.