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ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2026

Who's Coming Through the Door? Quantifying Care Continuity of Personal Support Services in Home Care.

Sandra M McKay, Travis A Van Belle, David Fry, Kathryn A Nichol, Trevor Heer, William Lomas, Emily C King

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Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sandra M McKayVice President Research & Innovation, VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON, Adjunct Lecturer, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Travis A Van BelleResearch Associate, VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON, Phd Student, Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
David FryVice President Integrated Client & Community Care and Chief Operating Officer, VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON.
Kathryn A NicholPresident & CEO, VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON, Assistant Professor (status), Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Trevor HeerSenior Director, Integrated Client & Community Care, VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON.
William LomasSenior Director, Integrated Client & Community Care, VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON.
Emily C KingDirector of Research, VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON, Assistant Professor (status), Occupational & Environmental Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Continuity is an important contributor to care quality. Objective measurement of care continuity is required to support quality improvement and track provider organization performance. The high-intensity, long-term nature of in-home personal support and the implications of employment standards make it inappropriate to idealize a single-provider model. To measure continuity in team-based care, we propose and demonstrate the application of four accessible, complementary metrics and demonstrate how these can reveal the diversity of client experiences. These metrics can be used to drive quality improvement and create benchmarks that define appropriate levels of performance with respect to care continuity.

Indexed as

Continuity of Patient CareHome Care ServicesSocial SupportHumansQuality Improvement

Identifiers

PMID42723585
PMCPMC13602456

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