Even before the time of COVID, urgent care centers (those in the trade call them docs in a box) were the go-to alternative to a long Emergency Department wait or having to see your primary care ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Continuity of care leads to better health care utilization and lower costs. Health care systems should consider ...

When a health care service plan (“Plan”) or an Independent Practice Association (“IPA”) terminates its contract with a provider, enrollees have certain continuity of care rights which permit them to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American Board of Family Medicine has developed a measure to examine continuity of care. Eight in 10 ...

Although shortfalls in continuity were well described prior to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the pandemic has created an opportunity to augment this critical component of care delivery, with ...

Seniors that consistently see the same physician in an outpatient setting are more likely to avoid an emergency room visit, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Using ...

Good bedside manner means more than being nice and polite to your patients. It means being your patients' advocate as they move through this complex and often fragmented healthcare system. Making sure ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Kansas inmates will get help accessing health care once they are released. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced on Wednesday that the state received a $4.6 ...

This study identified 4 distinct medication adherence trajectories and found that continuity of care was consistently associated with medication adherence in every trajectory group. Objectives: Recent ...

The chances of a patient with a serious mental illness ending up in hospital because of their condition are reduced by almost 40 per cent if they have a care plan, according to the research. The study ...