Studies found associations with access, continuity, comprehensiveness, quality, efficiency, population health, and quality of professional life.
Studies found associations with coordination, comprehensiveness, quality, efficiency, population health, patient satisfaction, costs, and strength of primary care.
Studies found associations with access, continuity, comprehensiveness, quality, efficiency, population health, patient satisfaction, costs, and primary care strength.
Kringos et al 8 have assessed the relevance of continuity of primary care in relation to other primary care dimensions and healthcare system outcomes; in their review of the literature, they found associations with coordination, comprehensiveness, quality, efficiency, population health, patient satisfaction, costs, and strength of primary care.
The INE is a source of routine information, whose population base and comprehensiveness are strengths of this study.
Studies found associations with continuity, comprehensiveness, quality, equity in health, population health, quality of professional life, patient satisfaction, costs and strength of primary care.
These data sources have a number of advantages, including large size, widespread availability, comprehensiveness and high generalizability to the population being studied.
Studies found associations with access, continuity, coordination, comprehensiveness, quality, equity in health, efficiency, population health, local accountability, quality of professional life, patient satisfaction, costs, and the strength of primary care systems.
The major domains of clinical primary care are first contact care and entry into the health care system [ 1], continuous and ongoing patient focused care for a defined population, coordination of care and comprehensiveness of services [ 3].
Nevertheless, NAMCS data provide a representative national picture regarding the nature of ambulatory care in the U.S. Therefore, the extent of comprehensiveness in diabetes preventive care for broad population groups in the U.S. is adequately represented by NAMCS measures.
