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The qualitative meta-summary on continuity of care by Haggerty and colleagues provides relevant results on the patients' experiences with care received from various clinicians in a variety of contexts. Apart from their main finding that continuity is experienced as a sense of security and confidence rather than seamlessness, we would like to comment on two different but at least as relevant findings: the importance of fir...
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Jeannie Haggerty et al. outline in their well performed metasummary the hypotheses generated in single studies on problems patients encounter receiving care of multiple clinicians. They state that coordination may be assumed by patients and not observed.
The assessment of management continuity from patients' perspective is difficult. Patient perceptions of inter-professional communication are affected by the appr...
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Jeannie Haggerty and colleagues provide a valuable synthesis of research concerning patients' experiences of continuity of care, when care is provided by multiple clinicians.
The concept of continuity is of growing importance. Multi-morbidity, the co-existence of several long-term conditions, is now the rule rather than the exception among older adults. This has the consequence that individual patient's care ma...
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