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Continuity of primary care is valued by a wide variety of patients and associated with a range of benefits for patients and the wider health system.(1) Recent studies in the UK focused on patient-level continuity of care showing poorer continuity was associated with an increased risk of unplanned hospitalisation.(2)(3) It is useful to explore continuity of care further such as by focusing at the provider-level continuity...
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I agree with the comments regarding inadequate analysis. Controls remain too few. Much data is missing. The data that exists is skewed because of poor access to generalist and general specialty physicians that impacts major portions of the US population and as much as half of the Medicare and Medicaid population. These populations continued to be ignored in data, analysis, and awareness. These are populations that have h...
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This article purports to support the thesis that increased continuity of primary care leads to lower medical costs. Unfortunately the analysis is flawed and the correlations reported in no way establish such causation. In my long career as a practicing Family Physician I was well aware that as my patients' health deteriorated and they required increasing levels of specialty care, my contacts with them, continuity as defi...
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