Continuity of care and coordination of care: can they be differentiated?

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The COCCCA instrument can differentiate the concepts of care continuity and care coordination and has been demonstrated to be valid and reliable in outpatient care settings from a patient perspective. Many countries have introduced strategies to improve care continuity and coordination, for example, the patient-centered medical home, accountable care organization programs under the Affordable Care Act in the United_States. WHO provided the definition of care continuity as "the extent to which a series of discrete health care events is experienced by people as coherent and interconnected over time and consistent with their health . . .

 



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