Patients are increasingly seen by an array of providers in a wide variety of organisations and
places, raising concerns about fragmentation of care. Policy reports and charters worldwide …

PURPOSE Patient-centered care is widely acknowledged as a core value in family medicine.
In this systematic review, we aimed to identify and compare instruments, subscales, or …

Background Lifestyle factors have been associated mostly with individual chronic diseases.
We investigated the relationship between lifestyle factors (individual and combined) and the …

Background Published prevalence studies on multimorbidity present diverse data collection
methods, sources of data, targeted age groups, diagnoses considered and study populations…

PURPOSE On the eve of major primary health care reforms, we conducted a multilevel
survey of primary health care clinics to identify attributes of clinic organization and physician …

PURPOSE In 2004, we undertook a consultation with Canadian primary health care experts
to define the attributes that should be evaluated in predominant and proposed models of …

PURPOSE Continuity of care among different clinicians refers to consistent and coherent
care management and good measures are needed. We conducted a metasummary of …

PURPOSE Patients who regularly see more than one clinician for health problems risk
discontinuity and fragmented care. Our objective was to develop and validate a generic measure …

… Jeannie L Haggerty, Canada research chair4 … Haggerty JL, Reid RJ, Freeman GK,
Starfield B, Adair CE, McKendry R. Continuity of care: a multidisciplinary review. BMJ 2003;327:1219-21 …

Background A 2018 review into continuity of care with doctors in primary and secondary care
concluded that mortality rates are lower with higher continuity of care. Aim This association …