Background: The mix of care provided by family physicians, specialists and palliative care
physicians can vary by the illnesses leading to death, which may result in disruptions of …

Objective To describe the timing of involvement of various physician specialties over the last
year of life across different levels of primary care physician continuity for differing causes of …

Background: For many patients, health care needs increase toward the end of life, but little is
known about the extent of outpatient physician care during that time. The objective of this …

Background Continuity of care (COC) is a widely accepted core principle of primary care and
has been associated with patient satisfaction, healthcare utilization and mortality in many …

Objective Continuity of care is a long-standing feature of healthcare, especially of general
practice. It is associated with increased patient satisfaction, increased take-up of health …

Background Although continuity of care is a widely accepted core principle of primary care,
the evidence about its benefits is still weak. Aim To investigate whether continuity of care in …

Background. Despite cancer patients preferring to spend their last days out-of-hospital,
many make difficult visits to the emergency department (ED). Family physician continuity of …

Background Care at the end of life is commonly fragmented; however, little is known about
commonly used measures of fragmentation of care in the last year of life (LYOL). We sought …

Background We examined whether older adults who had continuity of care with a primary
care physician (PCP) had lower mortality. Methods Secondary analyses were conducted …

Continuity of care (COC) has been emphasized in research on terminal cancer patients to
increase the quality of end-of-life care; however, limited research has been conducted on …