Measures of Continuity of CareA Register-based Correlation Study
作者:
Örjan Smedby,
Gunnar Eklund,
Erik Eriksson,
Björn Smedby,
期刊:
Medical Care
(OVID Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 6
页码: 511-518
ISSN:0025-7079
年代: 1986
出版商: OVID
关键词: continuity of care;measures of continuity of care;continuity in primary care
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
In an empirical study using data from a health center in Sweden, correlation coefficients were computed among nine different measures of continuity of care, five of them visit-based and four individual-based. Generally, the correlations were high. This may be due, in part, to the similar behavior of the measures for people making few visits. The correlations were also quite high, however, when the sample was restricted to people with many visits. Several measures display a significant dependence on utilization level. The results suggest that, for general purposes, the measure COC should be preferred among the individual-based measures and fraction-of-care continuity among the visitbased measures. On grounds of flexibility and ease of interpretation, the authors recommend fraction-of-care measures.
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