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 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 …

… 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 …

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 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 …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: The objective was to provide a synthesis of the results of the research and
discourse lines on main dimensions of patient-centered care in the context of chronic disease …