Given that unregulated care providers comprise the largest segment of care providers in LTC settings, further engaging them in knowledge sharing and decision-making is important; ignoring this group of care providers in care planning discussions and decisions would, at best, maintain the status quo.
It is important to monitor the critical ED segment of care and distinguish this from care provided elsewhere, 28 so that barriers to the delivery of guideline-concordant, evidence-based care can be identified and addressed using relevant, context-specific interventions.
Those who are seen at SRCs have poorer health status than the general population [ 14], highlighting the importance of caring for this segment of the population.
This of course requires more time, and the development of friendship between carer and client, which is not possible in 15 minute segments of care.
Also excluded were people with zero or only one visit during the year, because they had no "chance" to experience different segments of care.
First, instead of providing overall utilization statistics, such as number of people or visits to different segments of care [ 25- 27], we looked at individual-level utilization patterns, which should more directly reflect experience in continuity of care.
Hence, optimal allocation of funding and resources becomes necessary to not only ensure best possible outcomes, but to safeguard all segments of care from being unjustly neglected or inappropriately oversubscribed.
Health care providers form an important segment of health care delivery.
That would have the unfortunate effect of channeling people into what will be the most expensive segment of health care coverage.
Finally, an interesting segment of health care facilities in India consists of small hospitals or nursing homes.
