Continuity of care is a cornerstone of family medicine, improving physician and patient satisfaction and patient outcomes. The number of patients visiting the hospital has been increasing from the past due to sedentary lifestyle and also due to emergence of new diseases. To improve continuity of care, certain strategies would help to see their own physician except in emergency.
A. Balance the number of patients assigned to each doctor based on a couple of patient variables, age and gender to reduce patient visiting time and increase the frequency.
B. ELECTRONIC MEDICAL HEALTH RECORDs (EMRs) : It contains demographic and personal information, the medical history, test results and billing information of a person in a digital format. Their purpose is to enable all health care practitioners caring for a person to see accurate, up-to-date, legible and complete information about the person whenever they need to. Keeping privacy of these records improve continuity of care. In addition to this,
a) It enables practitioners caring for a person to communicate with each other more easily and more quickly
b) It reduces mistakes and omissions
c) It reduces the number of duplicated tests
d) Reduces delay in treatment
e) It enables people to have access to their own medical records and can able to participate more fully in their healthcare.
C) Planning of interdisciplinary care: which helps the patient to move easily and safely from one care setting to another. Moreover, it ensures most qualified health care practitioners provides care for each problems.
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