BACKGROUND Continuity in the context of healthcare refers to the perception of the client that care has been connected and coherent over time. For over a decade professionals providing maternity and child and family health (CFH) services in Australia and internationally have emphasised the importance of continuity of care for women, families and children. However, continuity across maternity an...

We introduce a notion of continuity for multimaps (or set-valued maps) which is mild. It encompasses both lower semicontinuity and upper semicontinuity. We give characterizations and we consider some permanence properties. This notion can be used for various purposes. In particular, it is used for continuity properties of subdifferentials and of value functions in parametrized optimization prob...

We say that a coloring c : [κ]n → 2 is continuous if it is continuous with respect to some second countable topology on κ. Given an arbitrary coloring c : [κ]n → 2, we define a forcing notion Pc that introduces a second countable topology τ on κ such that c is continuous with respect to τ . Pc is c.c.c. if and only if there is any א1-preserving extension of the set theoretic universe in which c...

(ξa)i := ξai for all ξ ∈ R and i ∈ I. (1.2) We are here interested in the case when I := N× or I := N, in which case the elements of R are called real sequences. We deal explicitly only with the case I := N×, but all the definitions and results below apply also to the case I := N. Definition 1: We say that the sequence b ∈ RN is a subsequence of a given sequence a ∈ RN if b = a ◦ σ for some str...

Political scientists studying institutional development face the challenge of accounting for both continuity and change over time. Models of path dependence based on increasing returns, inspired by the example of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, have played an important role in the analysis of institutional continuity, but they have been criticized for their inability to accommodate change. In t...

BACKGROUND Family carers, as a "shadow workforce", are foundational to the day-to-day integration of health service delivery for older family members living with complex health needs. This paper utilises Haggerty's model of continuity of care to explore the contribution of family carers' to the provision of care and support for an older family member's chronic condition within the context of he...

BACKGROUND Few empirical studies have been conducted on the continuity of rehabilitation services, despite the fact that it may affect clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, the perception of quality, and safety. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore experiences and perceptions of inpatients receiving physical rehabilitation in an acute care hospital and how these experiences may ...

Continuity is a part of high-quality patient care. The purpose of this study was to analyse what factors are important in the continuity of patients’ care, and how well continuity is achieved in different stages of the care of day surgical patients. Day surgery has become significantly more prevalent in the past few decades, and in order for it to be carried out successfully, continuity in care...

‎in this paper‎, ‎we introduce and study a class of generalized vector quasi-equilibrium problem‎, ‎which includes many vector equilibrium problems‎, ‎equilibrium problems‎, ‎vector variational inequalities and variational inequalities as special cases‎. ‎using one person game theorems‎, ‎the concept of escaping sequences and without convexity assumptions‎, ‎we prove some existence results for ...

let $a$ be a banach algebra and $x$ be a banach $a$-bimodule. then ${mathcal{s}}=a oplus x$, the $l^1$-direct sum of $a$ and $x$ becomes a module extension banach algebra when equipped with the algebra product $(a,x).(a',x')=(aa',ax'+xa').$ in this paper, we investigate biflatness and biprojectivity for these banach algebras. we also discuss on automatic continuity of derivations on ${mathcal{s...