Medicare recipients see declines in continuity of care
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 07:14
in Health & Medicine
According to a study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, elderly Medicare recipients transitioning from outpatient to hospital settings were more likely to experience lapses in continuity of care in 2006 than 1996. The researchers ascribe part of the reduction in continuity of care to the increasing use of hospitalists, physicians who specialise in the care of hospitalised patients...