Continuity of care is very important
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Continuity of care is very important.
Patient satisfaction is itself a major patient outcome, not something separate. Prospective randomised trials in this field can be unethical, so that much of the available evidence is observational. However, two randomised controlled trials have been done and both were positive for continuity of care.2,3 Numerous international studies reveal that continuity of generalist care is significantly a...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of General Practice
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0960-1643,1478-5242
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp15x685573