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Continuity of care suggestions

Sir Denis Pereira Gray and Kate Sidaway-Lee
Canadian Family Physician October 2021; 67 (10) 721; DOI: https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.6710721_1
Sir Denis Pereira Gray
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Dr Lemire’s column1 in the June issue of Canadian Family Physician is important and we offer some comments from the United Kingdom.

The beneficial outcomes associated with continuity of family physician care are even stronger than those listed, and now include reduced mortality,2 which has been shown to be linked specifically with primary care.3

Continuity is certainly falling in the United Kingdom as well, but encouragingly it is still being provided in some practices at a good level.

We offer 2 suggestions: it is important to measure the continuity provided, and simple organizational systems within practices linking patients with family physicians who feel responsible for them still work.

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    Continuity of care: a thing of the past? Can Fam Physician 2021;67:470 (Eng), 469 (Fr).
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    1. Pereira Gray DJ,
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    Continuity of care with doctors—a matter of life and death? A systematic review of continuity of care and mortality. BMJ Open 2018;8(6):e021161.
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    Primary medical care continuity and patient mortality: a systematic review. Br J Gen Pract 2020;70(698):e600-11.
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