Personal GP continuity improves healthcare outcomes in primary care populations: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personal continuity is a hallmark for GPs but there is insufficient evidence to support its benefits in ordinary primary care populations.

Aim

To investigate the effects of GP personal continuity on the healthcare outcomes of primary care populations.

Design and setting

Systematic review of quantitative studies investigating associations between personal continuity of care and outcomes such as mortality and healthcare utilisation.

Method

Embase, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched for studies published between 1 January 2000 and 31 October 2023. Owing to study heterogeneity the synthesis was conducted narratively; study results were summarised and expressed as having higher (compared with lower) continuity of care. Certainty of each summ

SUBMITTER: Engstrom SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12729051 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature