The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Interpersonal continuity has been shown to play an essential role in primary care's salutary effects. Amid 2 decades of rapid evolution in the health care payment model, we sought to summarize the range of peer-reviewed literature relating continuity to health care costs and use, information critical to assessing the need for continuity measurement in value-based payment design.

Methods

After comprehensively reviewing prior continuity literature, we used a combination of established medical subject headings (MeSH) and key words to search PubMed, Embase, and Scopus for articles published between 2002 and 2022 on "continuity of care" and "continuity of patient care," and payor-relevant outcomes, including cost of care, health care costs, cost of health care, total cost

SUBMITTER: Bazemore A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10202515 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature