Journal article
Continuity of care in mental health: understanding and measuring a complex phenomenon.
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BACKGROUND: Continuity of care is considered by patients and clinicians an essential feature of good quality care in long-term disorders, yet there is general agreement that it is a complex concept. Most policies emphasize it and encourage systems to promote it. Despite this, there is no accepted definition or measure against which to test policies or interventions designed to improve continuity. We aimed to operationalize a multi-axial model of continuity of care and to use factor analysis ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Psychological medicine
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 313-323
- Publication date:
- 2009-02-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-8978
- ISSN:
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0033-2917
- Source identifiers:
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176764
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:176764
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2009
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